[wxperl-users] [MacOS X] WxPerl 0.19 Window focus problem

[Ulrich H. <uh...@he...>]

Hej,

I downloaded the MacOS X experimental release (the precompiled package
from the download page) and started to play around with it. Most of the
stuff seems to be working fine on my Macintosh (iBook 600/10.3.3).
However, the WxPerl windows isn't able to get the focus (to become the
frontmost window).

Reproduce:

Start the "dialog.pl" sample from the wxperl samples. Fire up a terminal
and try to start the application by running ./dialog.pl. The dialog will
appear but it will be behind the terminal window. Even a clicking on the
wxperl window won't bring it to front. The buttons seems to work, the
grow, close and shrink buttons from the window are working, too. Even
the 2 entry fields can get focussed, however you can't enter text as the
window isn't the frontmost window and the text you enter will be
displayed in the terminal window.

Even if you rename the dialog.pl script to dialog.command to start it
right away from the finder the wxperl window will still be in the back. 

Fun thing I noticed: 

When you switch to the Finder and choose "hide all" the wxperl window
will still be visible.

my question:

Am I missing something here (I think I read the essential documentation
about this) or is it a bug in the MacOS X distribution.

Yours

Uli

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Ulrich Habel <uhabel_at_hexley.de>