Missing mouse focus for scrolling

Submission details

73 +79/-6 votes

Missing mouse focus for scrolling

Submitted by tino on November 8, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: When you open a new window, the focus of the mouse should be in scroll areas to use the mouse wheel. While also previous versions of the OS have never changed the focus automatically when hovering over another window, it has put the mouse focus in new windows that pop up. This functionality is missed in a lot of dialogs in Vista and still in 7 like the Folder view properties: There it is not possible to scroll with the mouse wheel without selecting a check box.

Was posted before here: http://www.aerotaskforce.com/view/160

Solution: New windows opened by the user should always get the focus.

or: Automatically change the focus to that window under the mouse pointer.

Severity: Low

Impact: High

Status: Not fixed

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Discussion (6 comments)

tino wrote on November 8, 2008, 2:25pm

Changed problem description.

Cuppa wrote on November 8, 2008, 2:59pm

I was just about to post this myself.

I think the new Notification Area Icons customisation window is particularly bad - you have to click a drop down list before you can scroll. I originally though scroll was broken entirely for that window... (at the same time I would like to say how much I love the new notification area setup - huge improvement on previous versions!)

JonathanJ wrote on November 8, 2008, 3:52pm

This request can also be found here:

http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/53#comment-216.

tino wrote on November 8, 2008, 3:58pm

Oh, sorry about this. Have missed your post. So the two should be merged.

tino wrote on November 19, 2008, 12:46am

Yes, it seems to be Segoe UI. :)

tino wrote on March 7, 2009, 8:24pm

Fixed for the shown example but still there on other dialogs like the new desktop background image dialog.

tino wrote on March 13, 2009, 3:02am

The issue re-appeared on build 7057 :(