No option to re-open Mac window on window close

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#9 No option to re-open Mac window on window close

Milestone: 1.0

Status: closed

Owner: Mounir IDRASSI

Labels: None

Updated: 2015-04-12

Created: 2014-09-15

Creator: Anonymous

Private: No

On the Mac client there is a minor interface issue. If you launch VeraCrypt and mount a volume and then close the VeraCrypt window with either the "Close" button or the close window "gumdrop", there does not appear to be a way to re-open the VeraCrypt window without first quitting the app.

The TC behavior was to pop open a new window when clicking on the icon in the dock. An alternative/addition would be to add a "File/New Window" option to the TrueCrypt menu bar.

Discussion

Brian - 2014-09-15

I'm always forgetting to login to SourceForge before posting. (I am kind of surprised I can post without logging in but alas...)

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- Mounir IDRASSI - 2014-09-16
  
  Thank you for your tickets.
  I activated anonymous posting on forums and Tickets because many VeraCrypt users want to remain as anonymous as possible when interacting with this project.
  
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  - Anonymous - 2014-11-04
    
    Thank you for providing anonymous posting, some of us live under oppressive regimes and encryption has been banned.
    
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Joseph - 2014-11-04

Same problem of Brian here!!
OS: Mac Osx Yosemite 10.10
VC: Mac version 10e

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Mounir IDRASSI - 2014-12-07

This issue is linked to the use of the new 3.0 wxWidgets which uses Cocoa API instead of Carbon. It has some glitches because it is not as mature as the 2.8 version which used Carbon.

Carbon support is depricated even if Yosemite still support running legacy applications that use it. In VeraCrypt, we decided to use Cocoa to ensure future compatibility, departing from TrueCrypt which used Carbon.

We will have to find workarounds to this or use wxWidgets differently to avoid this issue.
To be continued...

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Anonymous - 2015-03-15

It's been a fews months. Any word on this? (Brian)

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Mounir IDRASSI - 2015-03-15

Hi Brian,

I was not able to find a workaround for this wxWidgets issue. For now, this is on hold as I focus on other issues but I keep it in mind as it is a very annoying problem that I encounter myself on MacOSX.

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Mounir IDRASSI - 2015-04-06

I finally was able to fix this and the correction is included in the 1.0f-2 version that I released today.
Now, click on the icon on the dock will reopen VeraCrypt window.

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Mounir IDRASSI - 2015-04-06

status: open --> closed

assigned_to: Mounir IDRASSI
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Brian - 2015-04-12

Great, thanks!

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