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crispin YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 31	open() minimizing May 12th, 2006, 9:43pm   Hi, I'm not sure if this qualifies as a bug, but when I use the open command to launch another jar file, the current window becomes minimized - Is there any way to keep it alive in the background? Thanks! Crispin

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: open() minimizing Reply #1 - May 14th, 2006, 1:58pm   i don't follow you.. what do you mean?

crispin YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 31	Re: open() minimizing Reply #2 - May 14th, 2006, 11:55pm   If I execute a file from processing using open("file.jar")  the current window becomes minimized before 'file.jar' executes.  Is this unavoidable?

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: open() minimizing Reply #3 - May 15th, 2006, 2:29am   there's nothing in p5 that calls minimize from open(), and i've never seen that on my own machines.. perhaps you've set something in the windows explorer that's doing this?

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: open() minimizing Reply #4 - Sep 13th, 2006, 4:36am   this seems to be specific to when code is run in "present" mode, which is something out of our control.. i'm filing a bug in the bugs db so that people can find a reference to it here: http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=393