Follow-up after installing Leo to Ubuntu.

Leo behaves as it does in Windows as far as I can tell. No “sticky” 
outlines/nodes and Viewrendered works as expected .

I am confident that the strange behaviors are with OS X only.

-TK

On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 5:53:58 PM UTC-4 TEK42 wrote:

> I finally got around to installing Leo on a Windows machine so that I can 
> compare it against some behavior I have experienced in OS X.
>
> The main troublesome but intermittent issue on OS X is that when I have 
> multiple outlines open in Leo, it sometimes acts on the wrong Node tree. 
> For instance, there are times when I am trying to insert a child node on 
> the outline I am working on and it appears to be doing nothing at all, but 
> inspecting another Outline (opened but not the active tab) I find that the 
> "failed" child node inserts are all present there. What is worse, closing 
> the "other" outline does not fix the focus problem and no Node operations 
> succeed until I restart Leo - further many times after closing the "other" 
> Outline, when I save the focused (still open) Outline, the log says, 
> "saved: [closed-file].leo" 
>
> The above has been very difficult to reproduce deliberately, but I have 
> found a way to reproduce consistently a behavior that might be related. 
> This is in no way a critique of the Viewrendered plugin, but I have found 
> that when I have two Outlines open with content that I can use the 
> viewrendered plugin on, in OS X it gets "sticky" and the viewrendered menu 
> actions (e.g. "vr" or "vr-toggle") will only work on one of the Outlines 
> regardless of which one currently has focus. And if I close he Outline that 
> has the "sticky" viewrendered actions, they still will not work on the open 
> Outline. On Windows this behavior is not present.
>
> Perhaps this reproducible behavior may provide some clues to the source of 
> the problem, I suspect it has much to do with the different way OS X and 
> Windows consider Apps/Menus/Windows. 
>
> Any suggestions on where to begin to look into the code to track down this 
> issue with OSX would be much appreciated. Or perhaps this qualifies as a 
> bug?
>
> I may try a Linux (Ubuntu) install to see if I can reproduce the behavior 
> there - I suspect Leo will behave more like Windows than OS X in that 
> installation.
>
> -TK
>

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