Frank Engel wrote:What is being described here is standard behavior for an application in full-screen on macOS, and has been for several versions of macOS now. Chrome behaves the same way, as do many other apps when running on the platform. It has both pros and cons.
To get out of full-screen mode, bump the mouse against the top of the screen and click the green button on the title bar. Use the same button to go back into full screen mode. The "zoom" function ("maximize" for Windoze users) that the green button was originally meant to be used for can still be accessed by holding down the option key while clicking on the green button (when not in full-screen mode).
When the application is in full-screen mode it is indeed effectively in its own independent "space" for those familiar with the concept. The "hide" feature is disabled in this case, but you can switch to another app with Command+Tab and the full-screen app, being in its own space, will in effect be hidden anyway.
To drag something from the finder into a full-screen app without first taking it out of full-screen mode, start dragging it, and while holding down the mouse button, use Command+Tab to switch to the other app, then drop what you are dragging where you want it to go.
I understand this is the standard macOS full screen behavior. I never liked it and never use it, but in most applications I don't need the extra space as I do in Resolve.
Also in Resolve, on top of being a fixed graphic interface, there tends to be a lot of mouse action from the top for menus to all the way to the bottom, to go the color or edit pages, which makes accidentally invoking the dock very likely when going from top to bottom very fast... That was my personal experience while testing, so I just dropped that approach.
For now, full screen seems to be the only approach for my work.
That said, I find the full screen menu and tab command animations slow me down.
And needing two hands for a simple drag and drop cumbersome.
Gone are the days I could sip from my tea while fetching and dragging clips from my finder.
And thanks for the tips. I actually didn't know how to do a drag and drop to Resolve on the new full screen until it was brought to my attention.