Running a cloud computation from within rhino. Every now an then, the cloud engine sends status reports to the command line. Every time such a message is received, rhino8 forces itself to the foreground, disrupting anything one might be doing in another application (e.g. filling out a form in a web browser). To make things worse, in order to get back to what one has been doing, one needs to switch into that application, then switch back to rhino8, and only then the other application will reactivate. no such problems in rhino7.
Hi Christian-
I’m going to read between the lines here and presume “the cloud engine” here is some custom code (as part of Spherene?) you are running. It sounds to me like Rhino 8.app is becoming “key” and “active” whenever you call RhinoApp.WriteLine? Am I on the right track here? It sounds like you are looking for some way to write status without making Rhino key/active.
We are in the midst of doing some work on command feedback in Rhino 8 for Mac. @curtisw might be able to elaborate if such a use-case would be accounted for. Maybe this problem will be obsolete with the changes we’re making 
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