[Stanleek]

If I have opene IDE in maximalized window, than I open another window, not maximalized, but is opened over MyEclise. It does not matter what is open (word, excel, notepad, …). I have focused that window, but after few seconds it lost focus and MyEclipse is on the top.

That was happening already in previous version too.

My actual version of IDE:
Version: 2015 CI 18
Build id: 13.0.0-20151210

Thanks

[Brian Fernandes]

Stan,

This is a very bizarre problem, do you recall the version of MyEclipse in which you started observing this behavior?

1) What happens if MyEclipse is open, but not maximized. Does it still grab focus?
2) Are you opening any other windows from within MyEclipse like the REST Inspector for instance?
3) In MyEclipse – what editors are open? As an experiment, in MyEclipse, can you close all editors and views and see if you can replicate in this way? (You will need to reset the perspective to get the views back, or you could try this in a dummy workspace)
4) Have you installed any additional plugins into MyEclipse or is this the stock install?
5) What version of Windows are you using?

[Stanleek]

I discovered when it happens.

It lost focus everytime on mouse over Breakpoints panel.

1. always (does not matter if is MyEclipse maximalized or not)
2. independent windows, not opened within MyEclipse
3.
4. Only Subclipse 1.8
5. Winsows 10 PRO

[Brian Fernandes]

Stan,

To make sure I understand, you’re saying that if you hover from your window (Notepad, Word, etc.) over the the Breakpoints view inside MyEclipse, then MyEclipse grabs focus. Is that right?

Does this happen during an active debug session only? If yes, what are you debugging (Java / JS?) and can you try without an active session?

[Stanleek]

Yes, you are right.

It does not matters if you are in debug session or not. It is always losing focus, when you mouse over breakpoints view, although MyEclipse window is not active.

[support-tony]

Stan,

Sorry for the delay in replying but we’ve been trying to replicate this and it proved quite difficult. However, we’ve now been able to see a similar behavior to the issue you described, though it’s not consistent.

Basically, we see the problem on Windows (version 7 and 10) when an eclipse view has lines that don’t fit the view. In this case the line would display a tooltip showing the full line, when the pointer is above the line and the workbench is the active window. When a non-eclipse window is on top, the workbench isn’t the active window but hovering over such a view, with the mouse, sometimes causes the workbench window to come to the top.

This happens in base eclipse, as well as MyEclipse, so I’ve raised a bug on eclipse for the issue I replicated. Can you check and see if it matches the problem you have? In particular:

1. Does it only happen when you hover over a view with content which is wider than the view? If so, do you see an attempted tooltip expansion of the line hovered over?
2. Does the speed of the mouse pointer movement affect the issue:
3. When the workbench window comes to the front, is it the active window, or is your non-eclipse window still the active window? This can be hard to see with some desktop themes but you can tell which is the active window as it will be at the start of the window list when you press Alt-Tab.

If the issue is the same as the one I saw, then I don’t see a workaround other than ensuring the eclipse/MyEclipse window isn’t visible when using a non-eclipse window (for example, by minimizing it). As the issue is with base eclipse, we’ll likely have to wait for a fix there.

If yours is a different issue, then please try and provide steps for us to consistently replicate the problem, so we can investigate further.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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