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Bug 335968

Summary:	Wrong shell active after Alt+Tab with modeless child shell on Windows 7
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Silenio_Quarti
Version:	3.7	Keywords:	accessibility
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Markus Keller

2011-02-01 09:57:48 EST

I20110127-2034, Windows 7 (is OK on Windows XP)

- ControlExample > Shell
- click SWT.SHELL_TRIM and Parent
- click Create Shell
- Alt+Tab to another window
- Alt+Tab

=> was: ControlExample shell active
=> expected: child shell should be active

This is also a problem in the SDK, e.g. when you are in a text editor and open the Find/Replace dialog (Ctrl+F).

Comment 1 Markus Keller

2011-03-23 13:19:59 EDT

This is quite annoying, since it affects all modeless shells.
In the SDK, this also includes detached views.

Comment 2 Markus Keller

2011-04-21 09:17:41 EDT

I can also reproduce a similar problem with the refactoring preview window (e.g. inline method > "Preview >").

However, that dialog is SWT.DIALOG_TRIM | SWT.APPLICATION_MODAL | SWT.MAX | SWT.RESIZE, but I cannot reproduce the same problem in the ControlExample.

Comment 3 Markus Keller

2012-01-22 16:46:55 EST

This doesn't happen when I switch applications using the task bar, but it also happens on Windows+Tab.

With the Find/Replace dialog, this bug is just annoying, but there are other cases, where I don't know how to bring focus into the dialog again without clicking it (e.g. Pull and Fetch Result dialogs in EGit nightly, see bug 35886).

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:09:30 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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