incidentally i noticed the same behaviour today, but found it rather funny (macOS 10.14.6) probably because i am old and grew up with windows not in focus not doing anything.

since on macOS other apps behave mostly differently (the non focus window accepts control-click), i suspect its a tcl/tk issue. but what do i know?

cheers hans

Am 24.04.2021 um 12:48 schrieb Peter P. peterparker@fastmail.com:

Hi list,

on OS X and Linux the context menu of a patch behaves differentely whether the window is focussed (foreground) or not.

Selecting "Help..." for an object in an unfocussed window will open the introduction help patch regardless, selecting "Open" for a subpatch or abstraction will silently fail. I feel making a right click on an unfocussed window should either not open a context menu at all or pull that window into the foreground (focus it) and open the menu with its correct function. Maybe this is an OS/Tk issue and it is known since a long time?

thanks/regards, P

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