Reported by jteh on 2008-02-12 08:55
There are several issues with regard to foreground focus and NVDA UI pop-up dialogs:

• While the NVDA UI window is open, pop-up dialogs such as the Exit NVDA dialog intermittently do not come to the foreground so that it is necessary to press alt+tab to access them, as reported in Interface window doesn't come to foreground on Insert+Q #7.
• If the NVDA UI window is open, after an NVDA pop-up dialog is dismissed, the focus returns to the NVDA UI window instead of to the window which had the focus before the dialog was popped up.

These are proving to be a little difficult to solve. Some thoughts:

• All dialogs, including those generated by scriptUI, should have a parent of the NVDA UI window instead of None.
• When bringing up a scriptUI dialog, if the main UI window is not currently shown, perhaps Show() should be called which should bring it into focus, similar to the code for the Exit NVDA dialog.
• It seems that winUser.setForegroundWindow() does work quite nicely, despite my earlier findings. This may solve many problems, particularly the second issue described above.
• All of this fiddly code should be abstracted in some way; i.e. the code to prepare for showing a dialog and the code to restore focus after displaying the dialog.
  Blocking Interface window doesn't come to foreground on Insert+Q #7