Make auto-hidden windows show with delay

Does ToolWindow.Activate(false) work?

Unfortunatly not.

My code in this case looks like this.

HiddenToolWindow->Active(false);
OtherToolWindow->Activate(true);

if I remove line 2, "OtherToolWindow" still loses focus, and can not be used with for example the arrows on the keyboard. OtherToolWindow in this case is a treeview, in which the user should be able to "step" through with the arrows, pressing enter should show "HiddenToolWindow". But since "OtherToolWindow" loses focus, it no longer catches the keyboard. Or, with line 2, it keeps focus, but "HiddenToolWindow" immediatly hides itself.

Any other ideas?

Thanks
Roy

After looking at the code, I don't think there is anything exposed publicly that would allow this in the current build. If you have any specifics on what you'd like to see implemented in terms of properties to control this, then perhaps we can get this in the next maintenance release.

Thanks

a MinimumTimeVisible property would work for me. Specified in for example ms.

MinimumTimeVisible = 3000; for example would force the window to stay open for 3 seconds before going back into hidden status. Having this set to 0 would mean the same behaviour as it is now.

Is this possible?

/Roy

I think it's set to one second (1000ms) right now. Is that the behavior you see?

No, it is not. it closes immediatly. 1 second would work for me, but as soon as it loses focus it starts to close.

One quick question, the millisecond delay setting will affect both this feature (how long it stays up after Activate(false) is called, which we changed now for the next maint release) and also for normally when the mouse hover shows the tool window and moves out of it. Is that ok?

Yes, it would work, as long as I keep the time low it would be fine.

But if it only affected activate(false), that would be even better. :)


/Roy