Focus for typing / cursor over window behavior

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi,

I am wondering if there is a possibility to turn off the current behavior that the text input is loosing focus whenever the cursor is moved away from the window one is typing in?

For example, I am using a pen input drawing board, and when I place the pen down to type with two hands, it is hardly possible to keep the cursor over the input-window. It requires a great deal of attention and messes up my workflow a lot… often I type, then realizing everything has gone to the command line instead.

I would prefer to simply click in the viewport in order to make the command pick up keyboard input again.

is that possible? could it be an option?

thank you,
Daniel

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Hi Daniel - just testing quickly here, I do not see this behavior - I can type away while moving my mouse all around the screen - I can even click the mouse elsewhere and typing continues - not sure if this is related -

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-desktop/how-to-disable-hover-select-in-windows-10/d6da2f40-370a-4553-8e0c-c633e2a0cd32

-Pascal

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interesting. thanks for trying

it happens here all the time, also for the layer window(editing names), or any other window/panel that allows text input, like properties.

but outside of rhino it is not a problem, notepad etc. i can type while cursor is outside the application window.

I did connect a mouse and removed the wacom for test but it behaves the same as the tablet.

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I remember that Windows 10 had some new and obscure setting when it came out - it may be the one I linked above but it might not - to control focus behavior and some Rhino users had to make a change. I’ll see if I can recall what it was…

-Pascal

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thank you , I followed the link above, and although I am on win7x64 the setting exists but was deactivated (hover select window)