Dan,

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>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