Hide stack change focus not supported 64bit

Bill Vlahos bvlahos at mac.com
Sun Mar 29 18:58:31 EDT 2020


I was hoping to avoid using AppleScript but I might have to.

The oldest version of LiveCode I have that behaves the way I want is 5.5.5. LiveCode must have changed this after version 5.

Thank,
Bill Vlahos

> On Mar 29, 2020, at 3:38 PM, scott--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> This sounds like something AppleScript might be able to solve…
> 
> 
>> On Mar 29, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Bill Vlahos via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Mark,
>> 
>> OK. That makes sense and matches the behavior as my window does hide.
>> 
>> However, the Mac doesn’t give any window the focus. My application doesn’t really hide. It just closes the window but staying as the frontmost application.
>> 
>> I need my whole application to hide to give the target window which had focus before I clicked the button on my floating window after it hides itself. 
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>>> On Mar 29, 2020, at 2:43 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 3/29/20 2:17 PM, Bill Vlahos via use-livecode wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The documentation in 9.5.1 says that hide stack is not supported in 64bit. What is the alternative for MacOS X 64bit to temporarily hide my application?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Er... no. The documentation says
>>> 
>>> Additionally QuickTime does not include 64 bit support and therefore can not be supported on OS X 64 bit builds of LiveCode.
>>> 
>>> So the hide command works as expected unless you try to use the QT modifications.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Mark Wieder
>>> ahsoftware at gmail.com
>>> 
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