activateWindow, forceActiveWindow

[Jarosław Staniek]

Kevin Kofler said the following, On 2008-03-03 09:22:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe the current implementations of activateWindow and forceActiveWindow 
> in kwindowsystem_win.cpp don't implement the same semantics as their X11 
> versions. The issue is that SetActiveWindow only works within a thread (in 
> particular, only in the same application), whereas on X11, 
> KWindowSystem::activateWindow works just fine across applications. Moreover, 
> forceActiveWindow doesn't really force the active window, i.e. bypass focus 
> steal prevention, as it's supposed to.
> 
> I believe it would be more compliant to have activateWindow call 
> SetForegroundWindow( win ); (is calling SetActiveWindow first really 
> necessary?) and forceActiveWindow use some hack like 
> http://vb.mvps.org/articles/ap199902.pdf (I've also seen some other hacks, 
> like sending a fake user input event to the window to activate, but I can't 
> find them now.)
> 
> I can't test this though (only running GNU/Linux these days).

Thanks Kevin, I'll try to look at this once again. Feel free to send more 
ideas like these if you find something.

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