Bier Gitte - 2019-09-19

Hi,

this is an annoyance that exists for quite some time now. Since I don't think I can make Microsoft prevent focus stealing on operating system level, I hopefully can make developers aware of the problem.
VC Windows 1.23 hf2 x64 portable steals focus when volumes are mounted.
This problem exists at least since 1.21
OS: Win 7 Pro

Description:

  • Click "Auto-Mount Devices"
  • Enter password, [OK] (in my case, 2 HDDs are mounted with the same
    password)
  • While VC is mounting the devices, switch to another application
  • When volumes are successfully mounted, VC steals focus. VC puts
    itself to the foreground as active application

Expected behaviour:

  • Just notify, i.e. by blinking the icon in the task bar, but leave the
    currently used application in the foreground/active

Why this is bad:
User inputs meant for the currently used application are unexpectedly
executed in VC. This can mess things up. Apart from that, it's very
annoying and imo bad practice.