Hey all,
Miller and I have been banging our heads against the Mac OS X-only bug where the menubar would get focus and flash when you hit keys, but the key command wouldn't work or do anything else. It turns out that it is caused by the 'grab' command in the ::pdwindow::busygrab proc. If you comment that out, then this bug goes away. Odd that it only affects Mac OS X...
The grab function is used to put up the busy cursor when Pd is loading a patch, and it also locks the user out of trying to do things, like edit a patch, while 'pd' is busy trying to load the patch. This works by forcing the focus to be on the Pd window while 'pd' is busy. It seems to work like a charm on X11 and Windows, but on Mac OS X, it causes the new windows to not get the FocusIn message, and therefore not set itself up properly.
So now the question is how to fix this and retain the busy cursor feature?
.hc
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