Re: Focus problem for Win32 platform

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Andrew E. Makeev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it known Windows issue that focus is missing the parent window when 
> dialog is closing?
>
> My program description:
>
> 1. Create toplevel window (main_win).
> 2. Create toplevel window (dialog)
>    - dialog->set_transient_for( main_win );
>    - main_win->set_sensitive( false );
>    we need those calls to emulate modal dialog for current main_win 
> only, but whole application (other windows) is still responding on user 
> events.
> 3. on dialog->hide()
>    - main_win->set_sensitive( true );
>    - main_win->grab_focus(); // I added this string just before I wrote 
> the mail, and it won't handle the problem with focus.
>
> Problem:
>
> When closing a dialog on Win32 platforms focus is moving not on parent 
> (previous = main_win)  window, but random toplevel window from this 
> application or any other, someone told me it looks like "extra" Alt+TAB 
> (switch task) is generating on this moment.
>
> Any comments?

This is the bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124095

It can be worked around, to some degree, by calling main_win->present() 
on when your dialog is hidden.  The patch attched to the bug does this, 
but it's also easy to do in your application.

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
http://www.aranz.com/