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[Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx>]

Regardless of any wxWidgets issues, shouldn't this dialog be modal anyway?

Garth

> On Jun 24, 2015, at 3:03 AM, Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I’m pretty sure that is OSX only. At least it does not happen on my Arch Linux machine.
> 
> I just filed a bug report, as I was not able to find a root cause yesterday:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1468274
> 
> 
> Best,
> Johannes
> 
>> Am 22.06.2015 um 20:01 schrieb Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 
>> 2015-06-22 19:54 GMT+02:00 Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 22, 2015, at 5:00 AM, Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hey OSX devs,
>>>> 
>>>> And I just came across another minor UI glitch in pcbnew: When running the DRC, the dialog
>>>> window loses focus to the main window after the checks are finished. Since the main window is
>>>> usually bigger than the DRC dialog window this results in the dialog suddenly vanishing from
>>>> the screen. An unexperienced user might think that the checks failed and might try to click
>>>> the DRC button again. But since the dialog is still lurking behind the main window, nothing
>>>> happens.
>>>> 
>>>> I think that there are two issues here, that both should be easy to fix:
>>>> 
>>>> - DRC dialog window should keep focus after checks are finished.
>>>> - If the dialog has somehow lost focus (perhaps the user deliberately gave focus back to the
>>>> main window, leaving the dialog open), the next click on the DRC button/icon should bring the
>>>> dialog back to focus.
>>>> 
>>>> However, with the DRC issue I am not sure, if this is OSX only and I have no Linux machine
>>>> near me now to verify.
>>> 
>>> I have noticed this, too, and it’s been a long-standing annoyance. Is this an OS X-only issue or does it affect all platforms.
>> 
>> The "DRC dialog window should keep focus after checks are
>> finished."-issue does not seem to be an issue on linux. But I also use
>> the i3 wm which might or might not affect this beahivour.
>> 
>> Se other issue with clicking the DRC button when the dialog is already
>> open... it won't brigh the window to the front either. I just tested
>> this, but I have never noticed this because it has never hid itself
>> for me.
>> 
>> Sorry for continuing this, I just realised this might have gone off
>> topic. So I remaned this email subject.
>> 
>>> 
>>> -a
>>> 
>>> 
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