[Jalview-discuss] Jalview applet and menubar

[James Procter]

Hi all.

I've checked on the local minimac, and the story about the jalview 
applet menu bar and OSX is as follows:

Firefox and derivatives running on OSX run java applets as subsidiary 
application contexts to themselves. This means that as far as OSX is 
concerned, the user sees the sum of all the current application contexts 
relevant to the current input focus.

Practically, the situation is shown here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/27lan7

The image shows the File menu for the Jalview applet pulled down from 
the top menu bar, and the Camino pull down menus to the left of it. But, 
here is the snag - it is impossible to see or get to the File menu for 
the applet unless you first click in the jalview applet alignment window 
  to give it the input focus (the same is true with the File menu of the 
jalview applet tree viewer window, or PDB viewer!).

If anyone knows any way around this 'feature' of OSX, answers on a 
postcard to the usual address!

ho hum.
Jim.