Re: mobius in bidule question

["todd reynolds" <toddreyn@gmail.com>]

We had this issue in SooperLooper too, but Jesse was able to add some code which now allows us to select a 'stay on top' function.  Is it worth asking Jeff to explore this too?  I say this as a hopeful future Mobius user.

bests,  todd

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Tilmann Dehnhard <tilmann@dehnhard.com> wrote:
> i use mobius in bidule and would like the mobius window to stay on top when
> i click somewhere else.
> right now it minimizes and i have to click it back up all the time.
>
> anybody have an idea?

Hi Tilman,

I too have had this issue. But there doesn't seem to be a cure, since
software just works the way that when clicking in a window on the
screen the computer's operating system makes this window's application
the active application, meaning the window goes "on top".

A way to work around it may be to place windows beside each other,
inside your working space, so that even when a window is not "on top"
(part of the application active at that moment) you will always be
able to see all windows.

Another way may be to only keep Mobius on the top for clicking Mobuis
virtual buttons on screen. This implies that you can not use clickable
object buttons in Bidule and have to assign external physical MIDI
buttons/knobs to these Bidule objects. This is the path I have chosen
for my Mobius/Bidule setup.

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