BA Start Issue on Mac OS with Multiple Displays

[bfume]

After opening BA.app on Mac, the following two windows appear (I've un-stacked them for clarity in this screenshot):

Clicking OK launches the BA title screen. However, if I move the "empty" window titled "BA" to my secondary display before clicking OK, the "maximize window" effect still triggers, but BA's title screen doesn't load, the menu bar on my main display disappears, and the only way to recover is to force-quit BA.

I play BA a lot on my secondary display while waiting for this and that to complete on my primary display. The end result is that when I quit BA and re-launch it later, the 2 windows start on separate displays.

The easy workaround is to drag the "BA" window over to the primary display. This is clearly not a critical bug, but I figured I'd mention it in case it may be symptomatic of a larger issue.

MacBook Pro 6,1 (11E53)
10.7.4
GeForce GT 330M is active
BA 2.0.5

-Matt

[IainMcNeil]

Thanks for the info - we haven't tested on multiple monitors as they're not supported but if there is an easy fix we'll see what we can do.

[enric]

This is a very old issue I reported to Pip months ago, it has no relationship with two monitors, this empty windows always happens,.

[bfume]

It's not the empty window itself - it's that if you hit "OK" with the empty window on your non-primary display, BA doesn't launch.

[enric]

Well, if after launching BA, you go again to the Finder, (cmd-TAB) when you come back sometimes you get this window in front and no cursor, and you'll have a lot of trouble to close it and get back to BA.

[bfume]

Hmm - can't say I've had that problem personally. That being said, I'm a hardcore Quicksilver and Divvy user and do a lot of my windows management through keystroke triggers. In fact, Divvy was the only way I could figure out how to get BA onto my MPB display so I could continue to see what was going on on my primary display. I'm just happy to have a great game like BA on the Mac at all...