Hi! Does anybody know how to focus a shown window? The app is running in a tray and its window is us...

Yevhenii Nadtochii

01/31/2024, 7:36 PM

Hi! Does anybody know how to focus a shown window? The app is running in a tray and its window is usually

visible = false

. But a user can trigger window visibility from the tray menu. The shown window is not focused even if it is

alwaysOnTop = true

. Use of

window.requestFocus(), window.toFront()

didn’t help. What is a proper way to do that? I can’t pass a focus requester to window’s modifier, it doesn’t accept one. This is on MacOS.

Alexander Maryanovsky

01/31/2024, 9:08 PM

window.toFront()

and then use

FocusRequester

to focus whatever you want to focus in the window.

Yevhenii Nadtochii

02/01/2024, 9:54 AM

window.toFront()

takes no effect. Window remains non-active. It is topmost, there is a caret in a text field I request focus for with

FocusRequester

, but I can’t type there as soon as I show a window. Firstly, I have to click either a window frame or a text field, and only then type there. A window frame remains grey (and not able to consume keyboard input in the focused text filed) until I click it.

Alexander Maryanovsky

02/01/2024, 10:09 AM

Can you post a short reproducer?

Alexander Maryanovsky

02/01/2024, 10:10 AM

For me

window.toFront()

does make the window active

Alexander Maryanovsky

02/01/2024, 10:11 AM

Screen Recording 2024-02-01 at 12.10.54.mp4

Yevhenii Nadtochii

02/01/2024, 10:35 AM

Maybe it is because my app is a background application from the start (

Tray

LSUIElement = true

for MacOS). Tray menu has

Show window

item. And a user usually have another active application at the moment he/she clicks a

Show window

item from a tray menu. I will try to create a simple reproducer a bit later.

Yevhenii Nadtochii

02/01/2024, 4:08 PM

@Alexander Maryanovsky Please take a look on the reproducer. 1. Run the application, wait until the tray icon appears in the top bar. 2. Click on empty space on your Desktop to make sure the currently active app is