output in foreground on mac

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Anne Gentenaar
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output in foreground on mac

Post by Anne Gentenaar »

Hi there,
Is it just me or does 'output in foreground' not work on mac?
My BF who uses Resolume on his PC doesn't have this problem but on my mac I always have to be careful not to get my mouse in the output area. What to do? (and buy PC is not an option ;)

deepvisual
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Re: output in foreground on mac

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mouse on screen is never a good look.

Joris
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Re: output in foreground on mac

Post by Joris »

We do this by telling the computer to put the output screen always on top of everything else. This includes any other windows and also the mouse cursor.

On a Mac this unfortunately only works when the output window is in focus. You can see this yourself: when you see the mouse on the output screen, just click. That will force the output window to come in focus, and the mouse will disappear.

We have a few ideas on how to change this behaviour, but it's not something we have time for at the moment.

deepvisual
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Re: output in foreground on mac

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ok, that's good to know.
thanks

Anne Gentenaar
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Re: output in foreground on mac

Post by Anne Gentenaar »

When you see your mouse on the output window it's already to late ;)
But good to finally know for sure, thanks!

Resolume still rocks and makes my life better, yeah!!!

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