Dialog window lies in background

[swirly]

Describe the bug I launch gdialog from a terminal with

/usr/local/gDialog/gDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/gDialog msgbox --title "Dialog Title" --header "Dialog Header" --text "Dialog Text" 

the gdialog windows open but in the background. I thought the script was stuck

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• open a terminal
• launch the command

Expected behavior the window should be foreground !

Desktop

• big sur 11.7.4
• iterm2

[giladdarshan]

Hi @swirly, have you tried using the "--focus" option? --focus | Makes the dialog window take focus and become the active window

[swirly]

Thanks for your quick answer. I didn't. It works flawlessly. Shouldn't it be the default ?

[giladdarshan]

@swirly, one of the main goals behind gDialog was to provide a simple replacement for CocoaDialog so the syntax and default behavior for similar dialogs should be similar to what CocoaDialog provided (where it made sense). Also --no-focus option name sounded strange to me :)

Changing the default behavior to focus by default can cause negative impact if people update gDialog but not the scripts, so I prefer not to change it for existing dialogs.