Losing Focus when in Sidebar

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Occasionally (actually, quite a lot), I use the Sidebar to rename groups and/or tags. It’s a convenient place to do this, as they all show up in one place from all my open databases.

BUT, when I’m (say) renaming an item in the Sidebar, mid-edit I frequently lose the focus from the item I’m editing. DT simply discards the in-flight rename, reverts to the original name and (since I’m mid-typing) starts beeping at every following keystroke. This happens about 50% of the time I’m doing a simple item rename, and seems to happen a lot when a new group or tag is selected. It doesnt happen when I rename the item in one of the list views.

This doesnt seem to relate to any content I might have open elsewhere (I dont have a web page open in another window for example, as I know they are notorious for stealing focus). All I have is a Standard View window arrangement with “No Selection” in the preview pane and a list of items above it.

I’m not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior, but it’s kind of annoying.

2

I’m guessing this is in an actively syncing database.

3

I was trying to see if there was any correlation with the “syncing” pop-up that appears at the bottom of the sidebar, but I’m guessing that very brief sync operations dont trigger the pop-up (but do steal focus). But yes, I was thinking that might be to blame. I’ll experiment a bit to verify.

4

Are you editing a few items in a row and the focus is lost after the second or third, etc.?

5

The Activity pane shouldn’t cause this. But is it possible that RSS feeds, smart rules, scripts etc. modify the database at the same time?

6

I dont use RSS feeds, smart rules (yet) or scripts at the present time. To the best of my knowledge there are no magical background things running to steal the focus.

7

Could you please send a screen recording of the issue to cgrunenberg - at - devon-technologies.com? Maybe we’re able to reproduce it then. Thanks!