Can OSARA direct keyboard focus into the Project Media/FX Bay window when opened?

[ScottChesworth]

This dialog contains a ton of useful ways to manage project resources and already has a decent amount of native accessibility, but keyboard focus doesn't go to it when its made visible by choosing "Project Media/FX Bay" from REAPER's View top menu. Would it be hard to get that happening?

Think I recall us doing something to improve focus landing in Media Explorer. Was hoping there'd be reusable code from that, but I haven't been able to locate how we do it yet let alone understand It.

Thanks in advance for any implementation or pointers.

[jcsteh]

We didn't do anything yet to improve Media Explorer focus. That depends on whether it's docked or not and the intention there was to set things up so that it's undocked by default; see #343.

Is this another one of those dockable windows? Does undocking it make initial focus behave correctly?

[ScottChesworth]

It is dockable yeah, but that's not its default state here.

[jcsteh]

So Media Explorer is docked by default and undocking it fixes focus. Is that different here?

[ScottChesworth]

This is undocked by default, and focus never lands in the window when made visible irrespective of whether it's docked or not.

[jcsteh]

Well, that's annoying. I guess there's a reason Cockos wouldn't want this getting focus by default?

[ScottChesworth]

That I do not know, but I can ask.

[jcsteh]

Give it a shot. If they say no, we should be able to manage forcing focus, but it will likely be Windows only.

[ScottChesworth]

I just had @jennykbrennan confirm that focus does land in the window reliably on Mac, so, seems it's not intentional.

[jcsteh]

In that case, I'd say this should ideally be a Cockos fix.