Brian Barker wrote:
I don't find (on my 2.3.1 for Windows XP) quite what you suggest.
Pressing Alt by itself does not select the File menu; instead,
*releasing* the Alt key after pressing it does this.
Yes. I apologize for being inaccurate. When I press and release the Alt
key, focus is moved to the menu bar (and you are correct, the File menu
does not drop down).
<snip> In order to use the Alt key to
cancel the menu bar selection, you need to press *and release* the Alt
key. So if - with the menu bar selected from a first press of Alt - you
press Alt for a second time but then press Tab as well (to use the
Alt+Tab technique), you will indeed leave OpenOffice with its menu bar
selected, and will find it reliably in this state when you return to it
later.
Yes! I think that's it, or at least almost! This is what happens: If I
leave OOo by clicking on an other program with the mouse, I have not
pressed Alt in OOo. If I return to OOo using Alt+Tab, the menu is not
activated by my releasing the Alt key. If, however, I leave by Alt+Tab
and return by Alt+Tab, the first Alt (leaving) is remembered by OOo, so
when I release Alt after having returned by Alt+Tab the pressing of Alt
when I leave and the releasing of Alt when I return combine to bring
focus to the menu bar.
Actually, by playing around with the Alt key and the mouse I can see how
different programs use different strategies to avoid this.
Is this a bug? That's a matter of opinion. But it's certainly a
difference.
I really hope it is a bug, because if it is a deliberate choice it's a
really bad one. :) Really, I don't use Alt for two different purposes at
once. Either I want to Alt+Tab my way to a different program, or I want
to move focus to the menu bar. I don't want OOo to collect old
keystrokes, string them together and see what it can make out of it
later when its window is activated again.
I trust this helps.
At least I understand why it happens. Thanks.
Kirill Palagin wrote:
> Anything like this
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81846
> ?
No, that's not it.
NoOp wrote:
<snip>
> - Alt+Tab allows me to select another program, Alt+Tab from another
> program back to OOo puts the cursor back on the OOo document
<snip>
> Is that not what you are experiencing on your system(s)?
Yes, except the cursor part. Like I described above. I'm in Windows now,
but I'll try again in Kubuntu 7.10 later now that I believe I know what
is going on. Later I'll try in an older Mandriva installation on a
different system.
Thanks for the comments all of you.
Tom
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