Product: Application Framework
Type: changed
Title: Annoying focus behavior of OOo was fixed
Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Affected: all
Effective from: CWS inplaceobjects
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*Description*
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When a document is loaded in the OOo GUI a view is created at the end
of the loading process. Until now OpenOffice.org always grabbed the
focus to the window of this view. This is very annoying when a large
document was loaded and the user sent OOo to the background as he
wants to do something else while the document is loading.
At the end of the loading process the document suddenly was brought to
front and disturbed the user in what he was doing at this time (on
WinXP it might flicker in the taskbar only when the focus meanwhile
was transferred to a different application).
Now OOo will bring the window to front (or starts flickering the
window in the task bar) only when a modal dialog was opened in the OOo
document window as part of the loading process (e.g. a dialog asking
for granting execution of macros).
The window could have been left in the background even in this case.
But as modal dialogs could prevent OOo from opening other documents
until they are closed, users might get confused if they didn't notice
that their first document is still blocked by a dialog waiting for
being closed by the user.
As part of the fix for this annoying user interface bug it was was
also fixed that dialogs opened in the loading time sometimes had the
wrong parent window what especially created problems in the GUI test tool.
As this bug fix has an impact on the visual experience of OOo I found
it's appropriate to send out this notification thought it's neither an
enhancement nor a feature change.
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