Stop the trade window from stealing focus

[cbk1994]

The global trade window still steals focus. This is a major problem since it's now possible to initiate global trades via the playerlist (right click > Trade). When I was on Era I had to go out of my way to write a script to destroy the trade window on showing and return focus to the Graal client because players realized that if they sent trade requests to a player during a spar they could still the player's focus from the Graal window and freeze them until they click back in.

A better solution would be simply to not have the trade window steal focus, which is insanely easy to fix. Please fix it.

[Deas_Voice]

yes please, i just got abused with this on GK.
and it happens alot on other servers during events.

[Admins]

Players can ignore trades and I think we also added some simple way to disable them on servers, there were some discussions about this before.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Players can ignore trades and I think we also added some simple way to disable them on servers, there were some discussions about this before.

They can ignore trades by clicking "ignore". Players are sending other players trade requests while sparring or doing events, for example, which causes them to freeze since it steals focus from GraalControl (and possibly lose the spar/event as a result).

[Cubical]

Cant you just make graalcontrol the firstresponder whenever it opens?

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Cubical

Cant you just make graalcontrol the firstresponder whenever it opens?

No, because this would cause other problems. For example, if a PM was open and you were typing, it would steal focus from the PM.

The easiest (best) solution that I know of is to create the window before, then show it/hide it instead of always creating/destroying so that focus is never stolen.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

No, because this would cause other problems. For example, if a PM was open and you were typing, it would steal focus from the PM.

The easiest (best) solution that I know of is to create the window before, then show it/hide it instead of always creating/destroying so that focus is never stolen.

Stefan wrote a few tips of making windows not steal focus. Why couldn't he just do that?

Though I don't know what the trade window looks like/how large it is... I suggest something noninvasive(not in the center of the screen, for example). Maybe even integrate it into the playerlist somehow? Perhaps a custom notification instead of a PM bubble? Though that may be easy to miss.

[TSAdmin]

I lost 5 gelats once because of this. I was talking to someone (With the chatbar), so I was pressing the spacebar a lot. Suddenly this guy sends me a global trade request right when I hit the spacebar and apparently the default selection is "Accept" so by hitting Spacebar, I accepted the trade request and instantly lost 5 gelats. Having lost 5 gelats, I've instantly lost 1 month of subscription since it doesn't make up the full 300 of any month anymore, so I have 295 that are doing absolutely nothing... all because of that trade window -_-

[Rufus]

Someone used this earlier to disrupt spar tournaments on Unholy Nation, ya please fix.

[Crono]

nop sorry i wont implement such an easy request that should have been done in the first place. go do a long workaround im not gonna listen to my playerbase. thx~

[ff7chocoboknight]

Originally Posted by Crono

nop sorry i wont implement such an easy request that should have been done in the first place. go do a long workaround im not gonna listen to my playerbase. thx~

I wish that was a joke.

[HirakoShinji]

Originally Posted by TSAdmin

I lost 5 gelats once because of this. I was talking to someone (With the chatbar), so I was pressing the spacebar a lot. Suddenly this guy sends me a global trade request right when I hit the spacebar and apparently the default selection is "Accept" so by hitting Spacebar, I accepted the trade request and instantly lost 5 gelats. Having lost 5 gelats, I've instantly lost 1 month of subscription since it doesn't make up the full 300 of any month anymore, so I have 295 that are doing absolutely nothing... all because of that trade window -_-

Happened to me before, only it was 200 gelats.
That's why I practically quit Graal and started using the forums.

[DustyPorViva]

lol defaults to "accept?" That is such a bad move.