Force Focus Capture option

[macsmelo]

Currently, when QL is launched as an external viewer (e.g. from inside WinRAR) it displays the file but yields the focus back to the launching program - even if the "Stay on Top" option is set. This means, I cannot dismiss it with ESC key without clicking on it first, which is really a workflow killer.

Shouldn't QL (optionally) capture the keyboard focus to simplify this use case?

[emako]

Are you using a third-party explorer?

[emako]

And you can try FocusWindowOnOpen from https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/blob/master/OPTIONS.md

[macsmelo]

Not launching it from a 3rd party explorer per se, but from WinRAR (so I guess it does behave as an explorer for this discussion). Thanks for pointing me to that link - I did add that line to (all) the config files inside Roaming\pooi.moe\QuickLook, restarted QL, but it made no difference. Keyboard focus still goes back to WinRAR after the file is opened.

[emako]

I forgot to mention, this option feature hasn't been released yet, so you need preview version to experience it in advance: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/releases/tag/latest

[macsmelo]

Nice - that did it - many thanks!