Description Walter Harley 2007-01-17 20:02:37 EST

Sorry if this is a dup, I searched and didn't find anything.

I click on a start icon to launch Eclipse, and then while it is starting up, I may continue typing in some other application (such as email).  Eclipse chugs away in the background and then eventually pops to the foreground.  When that happens, it often seems to have grabbed the last few keystrokes of what I was typing, and it then inserts them at the start of whatever source file editor happens to be open in my workspace.  This causes the file to contain a compile error, be out of sync with CVS, and so forth; if I'm lucky, I notice it in time.

I can imagine two fixes: 

  1. don't jump to the foreground if another app has the focus when the Eclipse main window is created (this works because the Workspace Launcher grabs focus from whatever had it before, so if something else has focus it must have gotten it after the launcher was OK'd); 

  2. discard keyboard input from when the main window is created until the app is done being launched.