Avogadro on the Tahoe Public Beta -- save dialog boxes do not work

stevemaser · August 5, 2025, 6:54pm

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I believe this to be a bug with Avogadro:
On the Public Beta of MacOS 26, Avagadro 1.100’s “Save” dialog boxes are not responsive to mouse clicks.

Environment Information

Avogadro version: 1.100.0 (also tried the nightly builds)
Operating system and version:

macOS 26 Public beta.

Expected Behavior

Clicking any of the Save buttons in the “save the changes” dialog should work

Actual Behavior

The “save the changes” dialog box will come up, but the buttons will be non-responsive when clicked.

Steps to Reproduce

Install 1.100.0 on macOS 26 beta. Launch the program and click in the window a few times. Then go to quit the program. The “Save/Don’t Save/Cancel” buttons are non-responsive when clicked on

ghutchis · August 5, 2025, 8:24pm

I appreciate the report, but I’m not likely to install the beta on my MacBook until closer to the release (e.g. late August) because the UI has been changing a lot. I’m also honestly not sure if this is an Avogadro bug, because I’ve seen a bunch of UI weirdness in Mac developer forums.

We have been building with a newer version of the Qt toolkit, but getting the installers ready for Mac and Windows will take a bit of work. (Help with Cmake welcome!)

Can you please open an issue on GitHub as indicated above? That will help track when it’s closed.

stevemaser · August 5, 2025, 8:47pm

Done:

Avogadro on the Tahoe Public Beta – save dialog boxes do not work · Issue #2126 · OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs
github.com

ghutchis · August 14, 2025, 2:41am

Okay, I installed the public beta on a laptop and I can reproduce this. The nightly builds should be fixed in a day or two.

github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadroapp

Remove custom Mac message dialogs, which fail on macOS 26

master ← ghutchis:remove-mac-message-box

opened 02:40AM - 14 Aug 25 UTC

ghutchis

+33 -376

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ghutchis · August 15, 2025, 2:22pm

I should also mention that you’ll know the new build because it will have an icon updated for macOS Tahoe (i.e., with the “liquid glass” look).

I’m still trying to sort out the problem because it seems like it’s happening on the not-yet-released Qt6 builds too.

stevemaser · September 9, 2025, 6:20pm

With Tahoe officially announced today as coming out on the 15th - will this new version be going out this week?

Thanks!

ghutchis · September 9, 2025, 7:19pm

I dunno. It might be worth creating a 1.100.1 release, but there are still a bunch of things to finish before 1.101.