Eye TV viewing window stays in front

DaveWT

DaveWT

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I have an ancient Eye TV 200 unit (10 year old technology that still works fabulously) connected to my iMac for watching TV in a window on my iMac. However the Eye TV software is the current version. In the past I could put the viewing window behind other windows if desired. (Say to check my email while a commercial comes on) but lately the Eye TV viewing window wants to stay on top of anything else. Even if you try and drag it down out of the way of windows below it, it will just pop back up into place.

I have looked through the Eye TV software preferences but can't spot a setting that would cause this.

Can anyone think of a setting in El Capitan that might have caused this behaviour?
 
chas_m

chas_m

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It would definitely be a preference in EyeTV, not El Capitan, but this could simply be a bug. Have you contacted the developer about the issue?
 
DaveWT

DaveWT

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No I haven't yet contacted El Gato about this. One thing that held me back from doing so was the thought that this new behaviour started up independent of any update to the Eye TV software, although I suppose it could have been an update to El Capitan that could have triggered a flaw in the existing Eye TV software.

Also I had the thought that I may have overlooked a setting somewhere that may have got changed.
 
DaveWT

DaveWT

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ElGato was very quick to respond with the correct solution:

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"Thank you for contacting Elgato Systems.

It seems that you have turned on the feature that allows EyeTV to move the video player windows on top of other windows. This feature has been there for a number of years, but not everyone knows about it.

To turn that on, you select "Keep Player Windows On Top" from the View menu or press Option-Command-F.

To turn that off, just go to the View menu again, or press those keys again."
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I had suspected something like that initially, but as hard as I looked, I could just not spot this setting to change. All is well again.
 
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