[no bug] Starting Irrlicht doesn't run in foreground

erwincoumans · Post by **erwincoumans** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:50 am

When starting Irrlicht demos from the Xcode IDE, the Irrlicht demo window starts hidden behind XCode. Still it grabs all keyboard and mouse input, making it very hard to do anything at all.

How can this be solved? Is there a way to make Irrlicht always start in the foreground in Mac OSX, when starting from XCode?
Thanks,
Erwin

erwincoumans · Post by **erwincoumans** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:29 pm

Anyone?

Is there some method to call to force the Irrlicht 3D window becoming foreground?

Thanks,
Erwin

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sun Oct 11, 2009 9:28 pm

Moving to bug reports

ecsos · Post by **ecsos** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:45 pm

i believe if there is no console input required then it doesn't do this..i'll test later

DavidJE13 · Post by **DavidJE13** » Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:04 pm

This has never happened to me. I build from an empty project and don't open a terminal at all, so I think you're right about the cause.

As for forcing it to be foreground, I'm not too good with OSX windowing but can't you get a window handle and use the os functions?

erwincoumans · Post by **erwincoumans** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:00 pm

Actually I realized that the cmake build system CMakeList.txt files I use for the gamekit project doesn't include the .NIB files. That is likely the problem for the background issue and also the lack of keyboard input.

A related posting on integrating .NIB files using cmake is here:
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/20 ... 24920.html

I'll have to digg deeper and see if that helps. So it is likely not an Irrlicht issue.

Cheers,
Erwin

erwincoumans · Post by **erwincoumans** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:25 am

Creating a bundle, and added the NIB file fixed it. It was a bit of a hassle to get this done in cmake, but eventually it worked. (fixed in SVN revision 53 of http://gamekit.googlecode.com)

Cheers!
Erwin