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Author Topic: "Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?  (Read 7646 times)

herojoker

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"Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?
« on: March 30, 2008, 10:23 PM »
Hello,

in December last year CWuestefeld requested the "Hide on lost focus" feature (which is also used in Launchy).
Do you still plan to implement it?

Greetings
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Re: "Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2008, 04:05 AM »
it's on the list of things to add in april's release.

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Re: "Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2008, 05:38 AM »
Thank you very much  :D

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Re: "Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2008, 05:53 PM »
I hope it will be an option only! When I tried to test Launchy for a short time it was just this feature and its fuzzy search that put me off it very quickly. (I didn't intend to leave FARR, of course, I just wanted to know what Launchy is about.)

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Re: "Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2008, 06:27 PM »
of course it will be an option.

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Re: "Hide on lost focus"-feature forgotten?
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2008, 06:28 PM »
Another idea: For those who prefer the FARR search window to hide (so it's set in the preferences) a hotkey to make it sticky only until the next call would be quite useful.
So the behaviour would be like this:
normal: call FARR -> let FARR loose focus -> FARR goes away
alternative: call FARR -> hit special hotkey -> (let FARR loose focus -> FARR stays)* -> let FARR hide (e.g. ESC or launch an entry) -> normal case
The (...)* means: repeat (...) x times.
« Last Edit: March 31, 2008, 06:32 PM by herojoker »