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Bug 147901

Summary: incorrect focus after Alt+Tab on windows
Product: platform Reporter: mataal <mataal>
Component: Window SystemAssignee: David Simonek <dsimonek>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description mataal 2008-09-22 16:50:53 UTC 
It seems there is some problem with the cacthing of the alt+tab event in windows. I am not sure if it occurs in older
versions too.

Repro steps. 
- Start netbeans
- Open a file (i was doing ruby files) and start editing
- Alt+Tab out to another file (i went to pdf reader to see the example code)
- Alt+Tab back to the IDE
- the focus is on the application menu (File), i would expect it to be on the last edited code window. [see url snapshot
of same- http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=netbeans65alttabissuead0.png]
I automatically start typing and end up hitting a succession of menu short keys. :)

Is this because an extra "Alt" is being caught in the events or something?
Comment 1 Tomas Danek 2008-09-23 13:11:06 UTC 
I can reproduce on Win XP. 

1) netbeans
2) alt+tab
3) other window 
4) alt+tab
5) netbeans -> everything is ok
6) alt+tab
7) other window 
8) alt+tab
5) netbeans -> "file" item in menu is selected!

I agree that this may be very annoying. Please reassign further.
Comment 2 Lukas Hasik 2008-09-23 13:16:42 UTC 
unfortunately, known JDK bug :(
see the duplicate

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 73960 ***
Comment 3 mataal 2008-09-23 14:49:26 UTC 
:(
is there a problem with the bug database query page or am i missing something? i tried search strings "Alt Tab" and 
"Alt+Tab" to make sure i didn't report a duplicate, yet ended up doing so. :(