Re: Focus problem for Win32 platform

[Todd Fisher <toddf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -andrew
>
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Andrew,
   I believe the issue you describe is the same as the one in this bug 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137551, which has been fixed 
in both HEAD and 2.4.x. 

I'm not sure if the latest built dlls from here 
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html include this patch.

-todd

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