Hide stack change focus not supported 64bit

[Bill Vlahos]

Sorry. That should read the newest version of LiveCode that behaves the way I want is 5.5.5. I haven’t had to rebuild this application until now due to Apple removing support for 32bit apps.

Bill

> On Mar 29, 2020, at 3:58 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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