Re: Stealing focus!

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've always "liked" the fact that after a Windows update, etc. if you have
Outlook or other MS apps open and elect to reboot it warns you but that same
process will walk on any other software providers open programs.

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:34 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: [PCTECH] Stealing focus!

I really really REALLY hate applications that steal focus.

I was in the midst of writing a message to someone that was fairly long 
& involved, while at the same time installing an upgrade to zonealarm in 
the background.

All of a sudden the zonealarm installer popped up a dialog asking me if 
I wanted to restart my machine ... on top of tbird ... at the exact 
moment I was about to press enter.  Since I wasn't really paying 
attention to the screen, and the restart dialog defaults to YES, I 
simply  pressed enter and my machine began to restart.  Obviously I lost 
the message I had been typing for the past 10 minutes.

I really wish app developers would get a clue about how to write their 
programs.

david