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A OneNote add-in with simple, yet powerful and useful features
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Confirmation dialog box steals focus from other app if I've already alt-tabbed elsewhere #1582

Closed cspotcode closed 2 weeks ago

cspotcode commented 1 month ago

Problem to Solve

Allow running OneMore commands which display a confirmation dialog, then alt-tabbing to another app. Do not steal focus back to the OneNote window.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

In this scenario, the goal is to copy markdown out of OneNote into a Notepad document.

  1. Open OneNote and a Notepad window
  2. Highlight text in OneNote
  3. Ctrl+Shift+P, "copy as markdown", press enter
  4. "Copied markdown" confirmation dialog appears.
  5. Alt-Tab to focus notepad.
  6. Ctrl+V to paste text
  7. Meanwhile, confirmation dialog has animated fade out and disappeared. It steals focus back to OneNote.

If you don't Ctrl+V fast enough, you've accidentally overwritten your OneNote content with the raw markdown. Or if you intended to paste into Notepad, then type other content into notepad, you've started typing it back into OneNote.

Expected Behavior

After alt-tabbing away to Notepad, focus remains on Notepad. (or any other app)

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Additional Context

I understand why OneMore might need some tricky hacks to direct focus back to the OneNote window after the confirmation dialog disappears. However, if I've already changed focus to another app, then I don't want it to switch back to OneNote.

Unrelated, but it would be nice to hit "Enter" to eagerly dismiss the confirmation dialog. Yet I can't; I don't know if this is an easy fix? Or disable the dialog altogether like #1577 ?

cspotcode commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks for fixing this in 6.6.1!

Sadly, it also happens with "Copy link to page." In my case, I will often create a page to describe a task, "copy link to page", and alt-tab to my ToDo list app to paste it into my daily agenda.

I checked the OneMore options for a checkbox to disable the confirmation popup. I believe that would resolve the issue. I couldn't find one, but sorry if I missed it.