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ZazaChugo
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January 24, 2023
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What's wrong with alt+tab ?

  • January 24, 2023
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Hi All

 

I found a behavior of InDesign that is not have other products Ai, Ph, Acrobat etc.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aYl8Fi9eQsDYxu5-ZaMxqmb0gD8i-S4d/view?usp=sharing

 

In the video I'm showing Active folder with InDesign file.

When double click the InDeisgn opens the file and it should became Active.

So, it means If I push Alt+tab then the folder have to be activeted but no. It activates again InDesign.

You have to push Alt+Tab+Tab

 

Same thing happen if you close the window in the InDesign and want to go to Active folder by alt+tab it doesn't work. You have to push twise (Alt+Tab 2x)

 

For lots of users will not found this as issue (they work always with mouse) -- however these slows down the work quite when you work with lot's of kayboard shortacts.

 

I hope you could solve the issue. Thank you.

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leafbelly
leafbelly
Participant
July 23, 2024

I find it interesting that nobody in these comments seems to be aware of this behavior of this behavior nor can they recreate it . This happens to me nearly every time I try to alt-tab back into InDesign.

 

Your video has since been deleted so I can't see specifically what you're referring to, but when I try to alt-tab back into InDesign, the menus are available and clickable, however, the documents are not. You hvae to click on the tool bar and then click into a document (or click tab twice). It's a very odd behavior that I've only noticed in InDesign and has happened to me for years.. And for someone who likes to use the keybaord as much as possible, it's very frustrating. 

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
July 23, 2024

As Mike and I noted, the behavior can't be replicated and no one else seems to have ever encountered it — at least, they haven't triggered it, noted it, and reported it here. 🙂

 

There are behaviors that can be peculiar to some very small subset of user systems, a bad confluence of app, OS, and perhaps system drivers or other support software. I'd guess, from the info so far, that your case is one of these. I'd look at any and all apps, applets, etc. on your system to see if something is interfering with how your installation of ID is handling the Alt-Tab transition. For example, I use a little app that supports on-screen sticky notes, and it's wonderful except that it does a hard capture of some keystrokes, which causes odd behavior in some apps. On the Mac, I see reports here of the Magnet utility causing weird behavior with item selection and movement in ID.

 

I'd go through all the possibly keyboard utilities etc. on your system, starting with any fancy feature your keyboard driver/manager might support, and try running ID in the most bare, plain environment possible to see if you can isolate a cause. Short of putting your system in the hands of an experienced "forensic" tech, I can't think of a simple approach to running this problem down. I can only note again that it's not a common behavior of ID at all.

Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 24, 2023

I could not duplicate this behavior on my Windows machine.

Mike Witherell
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    Legend
    January 24, 2023

    I'm not completely following what you expect from this setup, but I will note that applications often open in less than obvious ways; that is, there might be a sequence of windows that is not quite as it appears in stacking order. So you might think one Alt-Tab will take you to the desired window, but the hidden stacking order means there's another one in the way.

     

    Not sure, thus, that this is a bug, but just unexpected behavior. But explain further if you think I've missed your point.

     

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      ZazaChugoAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      January 24, 2023

      Hi @James Gifford—NitroPress 

       

      Thank you for the replay. And yes I already mentioned that it could not be an issue for maybe most of the InDesign users.
      However if someone works with lot's of different type of files Ai Ps and Id for example. It is mandatory to have same behaving for all apps. I mean when you have to hope lot's of times between apps.

       

      Would be great if it can be solved.

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