Matthew Skala commented on issue #11512 at KiCad / KiCad Source Code / kicad

Matthew Skala
2022-05-02T23:12:13Z

Does the foreground focusing happen when the mouse moves over the title bar or only when it moves over the canvas?

Only when the mouse pointer touches the canvas.

Does it happen in all applications?

All KiCAD modules that have a canvas pop to the front when the mouse pointer touches the canvas: the schematic editor, symbol editor, PCB editor, footprint editor, Gerber viewer, and drawing sheet editor. Not the image converter, calculator tools, or plugin and content manager, none of which seem to have a canvas.

In my edited report I said that it happened only between non-KiCAD applications and KiCAD, not between different modules within KiCAD. But on even more testing, it appears to be more complicated than that: it happens between non-KiCAD and KiCAD, and between all the pairs I have tested so far of two different KiCAD modules, except that it does not happen between the schematic editor and PCB editor.

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On Mon, 2 May 2022, Seth Hillbrand (@sethhillbrand) wrote: