ScriptUI - bring palette to front on Mac

Question

Howdy yall!  Please consider this:  on my Windows 7 home computer I am able to create UI progress bars and popup messages for my UI window and everything works just fine.  Now, I come to work on the Macintosh and they don't work so well.  In this question, I would like to learn if there is a technique to bring a palette to the front when one is created, such as for this progress bar example, on a Mac.  The palette appears deactivated and in back for me.  It is unseen most of the time because it appears in the center of the screen behind the window by default, and when I move my window we can see the palette but there is no progress bar going on.
As you can see in the screenshot, my main window is deactivated because I attempted to get the progress bar active by deactivating the main window, obviously not successful.  I also set the palette to active, which did not work.
And, as I have implied, on my home computer on Windows things appear just as expected with the progress bar working and palettes appearing in front and active.  Does anybody know what could be the issue?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Try this… The problem is your first UI window is a dialog this holds focus intil dismised… You can either close it when the button is clicked or have palette load palette and change focus…?
#target illustrator
var w = new Window("palette");
w.size = [300,200];
w.active = true;
var btn = w.add("button",undefined,"show a palette, please");
btn.onClick=function(w){
    var P = new Window("palette");
    P.add("statictext",undefined,"My Palette.");
    P.active = true;
    P.show();
    $.sleep(2000);
    P.close();
w.show();