> On Jun 22, 2015, at 5:00 AM, Johannes Maibaum <jmaib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey OSX devs,
> 
> And I just came across another minor UI glitch in pcbnew: When running the 
> DRC, the dialog
> window loses focus to the main window after the checks are finished. Since 
> the main window is
> usually bigger than the DRC dialog window this results in the dialog suddenly 
> vanishing from
> the screen. An unexperienced user might think that the checks failed and 
> might try to click
> the DRC button again. But since the dialog is still lurking behind the main 
> window, nothing
> happens.
> 
> I think that there are two issues here, that both should be easy to fix:
> 
> - DRC dialog window should keep focus after checks are finished.
> - If the dialog has somehow lost focus (perhaps the user deliberately gave 
> focus back to the
> main window, leaving the dialog open), the next click on the DRC button/icon 
> should bring the
> dialog back to focus.
> 
> However, with the DRC issue I am not sure, if this is OSX only and I have no 
> Linux machine
> near me now to verify.

I have noticed this, too, and it’s been a long-standing annoyance. Is this an 
OS X-only issue or does it affect all platforms.

-a


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