Dan,
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## Phil:
It looks like TK 8.6.10 is paying attention to the system “Dark” appearance setting, when set. This leads to ‘interesting’ results with patches (white borders, mostly), and it’s a real problem with dialogs such as Audio Settings, which end up being white text on a light gray background. I looked into this again and this should not be happening often. As of a version or two ago, the GUI sets a >defaults key which should disable dark mode for Pd. There is a chance you would see this if starting Pd on a >new system with Dark Mode enabled as the key needs to be saved by Pd first, then loaded on the next start. >What is you set up to where this is happening? Is it happening constantly, ie. whenever Pd is run?
You are correct that it does not happen on re-launch. It seems to have just been the first launch that caused it.
We may need to actually set this key in Pd's Info.plist directly so it's always applied, no matter the defaults >setting.
I’ve also noticed that system dialogs (Audio Settings, MIDI >Settings) stay on top even when other applications are in >focus. I’m not sure if this is new behavior, though.
This is fixed by not setting those dialogs to "topmost" on macOS.
I can confirm that this is fixed.
Thanks, Dan.
Phil