Title context does not update sometimes (windows, firefox)

[codecat555]

Talon version v0.2.0-347-ga925 (347)

I've seen some odd behavior the last couple of days. I'm reading slack using firefox and have a thread open in the right-hand sidebar. I use my 'step out' command to issue the ctrl-. key sequence which closes the sidebar, and it doesn't work.Turns out it's because the context title is not correct. That is the firefox tab shows the correct title but 'talon dump context' does not -

2022-02-24 12:17:40    IO 'talon dump context'
2022-02-24 12:17:40    IO [audio]=1530.000ms [compile]=0.016ms [emit]=52.770ms [decode]=6.444ms [total]=59.230ms
2022-02-24 12:17:40    IO Name: Firefox
Executable: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Bundle:
Title: Refactoring source code in Visual Studio Code — Mozilla Firefox
2022-02-24 12:17:40    IO

That title of the currently-focused tab was 'Slack | cursorless | Talon — Mozilla Firefox'.

Switching tabs or windows did not update the title either. Eventually, it seemed to just fix itself while I was investigating. Today, the title updated properly when I switched to a different slack channel.

[codecat555]

I think it's happening when I highlight some text in slack (in firefox) and then right click and select the 'Search google for...' option. That takes me to a new tab and when I switch back to my slack tab, the window title is not updated properly.Anyways, that's what I just did and then I used this debug code -

        result = actions.user.talon_get_active_context()
        print(result)

        w = ui.active_window()
        print(f'win_title_debug: talon active window title = {w.title}')
        
        win32_title = win32gui.GetWindowText(w.id)
        print(f'win_title_debug: win32 active window title = {win32_title}')

Here's the resulting output -

2022-02-27 20:22:46    IO 'win title debug'
2022-02-27 20:22:46    IO [audio]=1740.000ms [compile]=0.013ms [emit]=55.200ms [decode]=5.764ms [total]=60.978ms
2022-02-27 20:22:46    IO Name: Firefox
Executable: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Bundle:
Title: Meet people like Ryan Arias on MeetMe! — Mozilla Firefox
2022-02-27 20:22:46    IO
2022-02-27 20:22:46    IO win_title_debug: talon active window title = Meet people like Ryan Arias on MeetMe! — Mozilla Firefox
2022-02-27 20:22:46    IO win_title_debug: win32 active window title = Slack | help | Talon — Mozilla Firefox

[codecat555]

I can't repro it at will simply by following those steps. That was just roughly the sequence of events which led to the situation in at least two or three instances recently.

Basically, I'm reading slack and pop open the sidebar to read a thread, then I navigate to another tab or window to check something out before coming back to continue reading. At that point, I try to close the sidebar but it doesn't work because the title has not been updated.

Also not sure why or when it starts working again...although one path might be following a link without opening a new tab (like moving to a different channel within my slack tab). I suppose this might fix it because it forces a title update for the current tab...but that's just a guess and I don't know if it works every time.

[lunixbochs]

I believe this is fixed on Talon 0.3.1-49-g8e47. If you encounter it on that version or later, before restarting Talon, please open the repl and run

debug.print_threads()

and post the output here, as well as your Talon version. Thanks!