Hi,
I'll hold off for now, as I may have found the problem by accident, and
it's the weirdest thing. It seems that when I insert a graphic located
in the same directory as the document (e.g., ./MyGraphic.png) the
LyX:Graphics window stays visible. But when the graphic is located at,
e.g., ../images/MyGraphic.png, as soon as one hits the "Open" button on
the graphics browser, the little LyX:Graphics window scoots behind the
currently visible document window, thereby giving the impression that
the dialog window closed inappropriately.
To make the plot even thicker, I tried this earlier on a laptop running
MacOS 10.12.6 Sierra with a copy of the document file that was causing
trouble. Everything worked fine!
I only discovered the little sucker hiding behind the big window showing
the document because I had two windows open on my screen, side-by-side:
the document and a browser displaying riki's instructions for viewing
the trace information. I was in the middle of trying to insert the
remote version of the graphic when I minimized the browser for some
reason, and lo and behold there was the little LyX:Graphics scamp hiding
behind the main document but with one edge sticking out where it was
visible!
This is something that probably needs looking into. (Dialog windows
should always display in front of windows that open them).
But for now I'll try living with this. I'll let you know if I run into
more trouble.
Thank you, thank you so much for your help.
Marsh
On 3/26/18 5:09 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 03/26/2018 04:56 PM, Marshall Feldman wrote:
Sorry, Paul. I usually list version and OS first things, but this
time it slipped my mind.
I'm using LyX 2.3.0 on a iMac running Mac OS 10.10.5 (Yosemite).
I followed Riki's suggestion and used the window in LyX itself. All I
did was:
1. Open my document
2. Navigate to the figure float I want to use.
3. Insert a line above the caption
4. Follow Riki's instructions for turning on the Message Pane and
selecting both debug & graphics messages.
Can you try doing this and selecting JUST graphics messages? The
general debug messages make it hard to read the log (and all
TextMetric and focus messages are of that type). It would also help if
you could do exactly the same thing, but with the image in the place
that it does work. Then we can compare.
Riki
