Turn Filer keyboard shortcuts off!

I find it incredibly aggravating the way the Filer now insists on claiming the input focus whenever I click in one of its windows, but never more so than just now, when I realised how complicated Shift-dragging filenames into a TaskWindow has become. Because each filename needs a space, or possibly a command switch, inserted before it, that means I have to keep clicking back in the TaskWindow once per filename!

I don’t imagine I’ll ever use the keyboard shortcuts, so is there any way to stop them from getting under my feet? The Filer Configure dialogue suggests not, and I couldn’t find anything under *Help Filer either.

Now that would be very useful.

How likely is it that the TaskWindow could be coaxed into claiming the input focus itself upon dragging a file to it?

claiming the input focus itself upon dragging a file to it?

Seems eminently sensible to me.

How likely is it that the TaskWindow could be coaxed into claiming the input focus itself upon dragging a file to it?

For that you’d have to alter the TaskWindow server (usually an editor) that handles the TaskWindow.

I’ve changed StrongED such that it now claims the input focus when dragging to a TaskWindow it owns (it already did for regular windows). Also enabled Ctrl-Shift drags to a TaskWindow so that you can insert just the leafname.

Great stuff, Fred. Thanks :-)

Don’t forget it’s trivial to knock up a module that filters out keypresses from reaching the Filer.

the Filer now insists on claiming the input focus whenever I click in one of its windows

If other TaskWindow servers (e.g. Edit/Zap) aren’t updated à la StrongED, is it possible for the Filer to be modified to claim the input focus only when the mouse button is released within one of its windows, i.e. not when dragging elsewhere?¹²

¹ This could still be problematic if, e.g. while bringing a directory viewer to the front by clicking on its title bar, an area of the pane itself is inadvertently clicked on.

² Also wouldn’t help with multiple file select (I can’t remember if that drops all the filenames into the TaskWindow or not).

knock up a module that filters out keypresses from reaching the Filer

But would they end up where the user expects them instead?

Don’t forget it’s trivial to knock up a module that filters out keypresses from reaching the Filer.

This has spectacularly little to do with my point.

Has a way stop the filer claiming input focus been added yet?