My Autopano Pro forum

there is an old bug report on this topic with regard to the mouse action to select a center point.
the response was to add the "Center Point tool stays activated after use" check box.

i didn't follow up on that, but that was the wrong thing to have done.

the real problem is not the behaviour of an active window, but that an activation click in an inactive window also does whatever that window's current mode has as the current action.

the correct fix is to disable "click-through" for inactive windows.
the problem apples to all editor window modes, not just the center point tool.

here is a link to a longer discussion of the problem:
http://danielshusta.com/post/39545060/click-through

here is a link to apple's ui guidelines on the topic (look for "Click-Through")
http://developer.apple.com/documentatio … ion_5.html

they express several specific criteria. in general, the rule is that a click-through should not cause an undesirable side-effect. in most every case, a click-through in the pano editor window does exactly that.