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This pull request modifies window focus and activation handling on Windows to prevent unexpected window reactivation and z-order changes. It updates FlutterWindow::Focus to only apply focus if the top-level window is already active, ignores unfocus requests in FlutterWindowsEngine::OnViewFocusChangeRequest, and consolidates window activation logic into HostWindow::HandleWindowActivation to prevent deactivated windows from reactivating themselves. Unit tests are added to verify these behaviors. No review comments were provided, and there is no feedback to address.
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Nice fix! This makes sense to me. @loic-sharma do you care to chime in for a Googler review?
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This looks good to me, but I'd like to get reviews from other folks as well. @9AZX Could you update this PR's description to describe the latest implementation? This will make it easier to understand these changes when in the future when we're looking back at the history :) |
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This looks good to me, excellent work!
| // an independent focus root: nesting would otherwise make an ancestor | ||
| // view report hasFocus when a descendant view is focused, causing it | ||
| // to request native focus and pull its window forward. | ||
| parentNode: FocusManager.instance.rootScope, |
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I am not sure how I feel about this. In some cases, with independent windows, you want to have separate focus tree. But in other cases, like popovers you don't. I'm wondering if the root of the issue is that the view is anchored at the wrong place in widget hierarchy. I think the WindowManager hosted by the application right now is not a good solution - it causes other issues as well, i.e. widget inspector not working in other than the first window.
I think we might want to take a step back and figure out if it wouldn't be better to have an Material/WidgetsApp per window, which would also take care of the focus issue.
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I agree that this may be a sign that the whole widget tree structure has a problem, not just the focus tree.
Maybe instead of a WidgetsApp per window we could split out the window-specific stuff into a new widget (WidgetsWindow...?). There is a bunch of stuff inside of WidgetsApp that probably makes sense to be defined at the app-level (keyboard shortcuts, localizations, state restoration, etc.) while focus makes more sense at the widgets-level. I haven't looked into the details of whether this is possible but just an idea.
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I have a WIP PR for moving window manager outside of WidgetsApp. Yes, ideally we might want to share some things for all windows, but I think in the meanwhile having shortcuts etc defined per window is less of a problem that things weirdly failing (like focus issue here or turning on widget inspector literally breaking updating of secondary windows, or even mere the existence of "secondary" windows...)
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On Windows with multi-window enabled, activating a regular window pulled other regular windows forward in the z-order (and could steal focus back), even though they are independent. The causes span the engine and the framework:
Engine: the baseWM_ACTIVATEhandler refocused a window's own view on deactivation, reactivating it. The activation logic is now shared with the dialog handler and skips refocusing onWA_INACTIVEFramework: when a view is rendered inside another (viaViewAnchor), itsFocusScopenested under the parent view's scope, so the parent reportedhasFocuswhenever a child view was focused and asked the engine to focus its window. Each view now attaches its focus subtree to the root scope (newFocusTraversalGroup.parentNode), so each view is an independent focus root. This also fixes moving focus from a child view back to a parent view.Framework: on desktop, the focus suspended when the app goes inactive was restored on resume even if another window had been activated meanwhile, stealing focus back. It now restores only when nothing else has claimed focus.Tested manually on Windows 11 with examples/multiple_windows
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