Bug 254412

Summary: [Mac] focus grabbing after start-up is unsafe and harmful
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: w.pasman <w.pasman>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Prakash Rangaraj <prakash>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: pwebster
Version: 3.3Keywords: bugday, helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
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Description w.pasman CLA 2008-11-06 04:11:51 EST 
It takes quite a while to boot Eclipse. So I usually continue working on another project eg typing text in some word document 
When Eclipse finally has loaded it suddenly grabs the focus and my last ten or so keystrokes targeted at the word document end up somewhere in Eclipse damaging something there. Typically it screws up the boot because it tries to load a non-existent project (because the filename is messed up) after which I can quit and restart Eclipse again.....

This focus grabbing after loading causes damage and is very user unfriendly. 
Can this please be removed?


I have seen others also complain about this, e.g. http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=78588
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2009-07-09 19:15:57 EDT 
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
Comment 2 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-26 12:03:14 EST 
Prakash is now responsible for watching bug in the [Mac] component area.
Comment 3 w.pasman CLA 2010-05-19 03:28:30 EDT 
Could this be picked up by someone? This bug is still bugging me daily :-(
Comment 4 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-05-19 03:55:14 EDT 
This isn't a high priority bug for us. Submitting a patch might increase the probability of this bug fixed in 3.7
Comment 5 w.pasman CLA 2010-05-19 05:06:47 EDT 
(In reply to comment #4)
> This isn't a high priority bug for us. Submitting a patch might increase the
> probability of this bug fixed in 3.7

A patch? I am pretty sure that there is just one line of code, with something like "grabfocus", that has to be removed...
Comment 6 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-10-09 10:32:55 EDT 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Could this be picked up by someone? This bug is still bugging me daily :-(

   Which build are you using? This doesn't seem to happen in Helios.
Comment 7 w.pasman CLA 2010-10-11 02:38:00 EDT 
Yes, I am very happy that this problem has been solved in Helios. At least it did not happen to me anymore since I moved to Helios. Thanks!!!
Comment 8 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-10-11 02:40:16 EDT 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Yes, I am very happy that this problem has been solved in Helios. At least it
> did not happen to me anymore since I moved to Helios. Thanks!!!

   Thanks. Resolving as Works-for-me