Sadly 6.0.2 still does nothing for this issue.

Steven

Hello!

I've got the same problem with this little palette:

#targetengine "session"
//same problem with own target engine
 
var pal = new Window("palette", "focustest", undefined, {resizeable:true, closeButton:true});
 
pal.st = pal.add("statictext", undefined, "bla:");
 
pal.show();

As in the original post already said: the palette eats some keystrokes (e.g. I can type "y" but not "a"), the focus remains on the palette.

Is it possible to work with an eventhandler, someting like "onMouseOut focus the layout"?

I'm running InD 6.04 on WinXP... is there a solution for this problem or has somebody a workaround?

Best regards,

TYPO

Is there any solution for this? I am having the same issue, and the workaround i am using is to send focus to indesign as soon as cursors leave the pallete boundaries. If there is a fix for this issue, can someone share a link to that.

Dr. TYPO wrote:

 

 

#targetengine "session"
 
var pal = new Window("palette", "focustest", undefined, {resizeable:true, closeButton:true});
 
pal.st = pal.add("statictext", undefined, "some static text...");
 
FocusInDesign = pal.addEventListener("mouseout", LeaveTestPalette);
function LeaveTestPalette() {
    indesign.reveal();
    }
 
pal.show();

 

 

 

--> the eventhandler brings InDesign to the front when you leave the palette.

 

Well, it's still not good: the palette loses the focus too early (as soon as you leave the static text field).

 

Do I have to work with coordinates of the palette in order to determine if the mouse pointer has really left the palette?

• The problem with working with mouse coordinates is that the palette title bar seems to be out of the scope of ScriptUI. I mean that no mouse event is listenable within this specific area. The mouseout event is notified to the palette (at-target) as soon as the mouse leave the drawable area, excluding the title bar.

• However you can significantly improve your event handler by ignoring any event target which is not the palette itself —don't forget that the mouseout event bubbles (http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#event-type-mouseout). Thus you bring ID to the front only when you actually leave the palette drawable area:

#targetengine "mySession"
 
var pal = new Window("palette", "focustest", undefined, {resizeable:true, closeButton:true});
 
pal.st = pal.add("statictext", undefined, "some static text...");
 
pal.addEventListener('mouseout', leaveTestPalette);
 
function leaveTestPalette(/*MouseEvent*/mev)
     {
     if( mev.target instanceof Window ) app.activate();
     }
 
pal.show();

Does that help?

@+

Marc

Hello Marc,

that was quick :-)

thanx & I'll try!

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