Window Focus

[stephenk]

I have not tried that approach; what I have at the moment is something like this, which may not be applicable to what you want to accomplish:

Keyboard focus when opening a plugin in the DAW

I’ve been experimenting with the following approach. I can’t say it is extensively tested in many hosts because I haven’t released anything yet. But I was having the same problem, and I want my MainComponent to grab focus when the plugin window is first shown. The idea is: When the MainComponent is created, instantiate a Timer class that checks periodically (i.e. once per second) for the window being the frontmost process, and then focuses the MainComponent, after which it stops the timer callb…