Re:Please Don't Steal My Focus
by reitzensteinm on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @07:16PM
(#86451)
Well, there could be both a 'launch app and give focus' and 'launch app in background' so the caller chooses - in most cases the window manager, so for example items on startup don't clog everything up.
You could probably take away the ability for an app to grab focus for itself (but an app with focus could assign focus) with no real loss - just mandate that the notification area be used instead. Of course, that's ignoring legacy apps, so it can't really be done (smoothly), but there probably is a clean, correct in hindsight solution to this problem.
Then again, if they're going to break stuff just because in Vista... might as well add something useful!
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You could probably take away the ability for an app to grab focus for itself (but an app with focus could assign focus) with no real loss - just mandate that the notification area be used instead. Of course, that's ignoring legacy apps, so it can't really be done (smoothly), but there probably is a clean, correct in hindsight solution to this problem.
Then again, if they're going to break stuff just because in Vista... might as well add something useful!
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Why can't I get Help from this program?
The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which was used in previous versions of Windows and it is not supported in Windows Vista.
For more information, see Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) is no longer included with Windows on the Microsoft support website.