Improve focus behavior when app-switching to Bookends
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:13 pm
With Bookends in List View with the Info Drawer visible, if you switch from another application to Bookends, the focus visibly jumps, first to the main window, and then to the Info Drawer. Getting the focus out of the Info Drawer into the list of entries or search bar requires a mouse click - thus taking my hands away from the keyboard and slowing me down.
Jon - would it be possible to rework this so that the focus stays in the main window? Preferably Bookends would remember where the focus was and would keep it there, but if Bookends has to snap its focus somewhere, the Search field or the currently-selected citation would both make sense. My choice is the latter, but at worst a tap or two of the tab key would get me to the desired space.
I request this because I do a lot of cmd-tab application switching on my 12" iBook screen. When I switch to Bookends from my word processor, I want to work with references, not with the information in the Info Drawer. So for me, the more keyboard friendly Bookends is, the better.
Jon - would it be possible to rework this so that the focus stays in the main window? Preferably Bookends would remember where the focus was and would keep it there, but if Bookends has to snap its focus somewhere, the Search field or the currently-selected citation would both make sense. My choice is the latter, but at worst a tap or two of the tab key would get me to the desired space.
I request this because I do a lot of cmd-tab application switching on my 12" iBook screen. When I switch to Bookends from my word processor, I want to work with references, not with the information in the Info Drawer. So for me, the more keyboard friendly Bookends is, the better.