NetMage
302 discussion posts
With the 11 Beta of DF (11.0 Beta 2) on Windows 10 (21H2 Build 19044.3930) and using grouped taskbar icons, the DF Taskbar does not properly switch between multiple Windows for an application when clicked.
For example, if I have two Explorer Windows open to different folders, and I click the icon, it shows one of the Explorer Windows. If I click the icon again, it minimizes that Window. It never brings the second Window to the front.
This is different from the Windows taskbar and different from how I remember it working in DF 10?
Could you send me over a video of the issue?
NetMage
302 discussion posts
Here you go - you can see I have multiple File Explorer windows but clicking the Taskbar button only brings the latest one to the foreground and then hides it again.
(Sorry for the poor video, I had to downsample to get the size small enough and may have overcorrected
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• Attachment [protected]: Taskbar Button Clicking.MOV [2,261,207 bytes]
Thanks for sending that over. Any chance you're using something like 7 Taskbar Tweaker? A single click on grouped icons should just show the preview of the windows, unless you have another app installed to change that behavior?
NetMage
302 discussion posts
I have no other tweak type programs installed. (I just re-wrote them as DF functions.)
A single click has never shown the (tiny) preview of windows that I am aware of, it has always been hover over the icon to see a preview, click a preview to switch to that window, click the icon to cycle through all the windows (which is also how the stock Windows taskbar works).
I've attached a video showing my Windows taskbar behavior, does your's work the same?
NetMage
302 discussion posts
I did not realize it (it was setup a long time ago), but I apparently have the Last Active Click registry tweak setup:
https://superuser.com/a/685964/130497
This means when I click on an icon stack in the taskbar, it switches to the last open window for that application, and subsequent clicks brings older windows to the foreground.
I am positive this used to work on the DF Taskbar as well, but it stopped sometime recently. Can it be turned on again?
Ah interesting, I was able to reproduce that on my end, it does seem to work with v10. I'll add it to our list and we'll see if we can get it working again.
NetMage
302 discussion posts
Any progress on getting this working again?
Yep we should have this fixed up for our next beta
We've released a new beta that should fix this up, please let me know if you run into any issues after updating.
Thanks!
NetMage
302 discussion posts
Resurrecting this because over time (or with my switch to Windows 11) I realize the definition of "next window" is different between Windows and DF.
With the Windows taskbar, clicking the taskbar icon brings up the top most Window (most recently viewed) when you have focused on a different application and DF does the same.
But when you have more than two Windows for a single application (let's say 5) and have one on top (W1). (The rest are W2, W3, W4, W5). If you use the hover preview to bring up W4 and then click on the taskbar icon, W1 comes back up in Windows. But in DF, it is like the Windows are in a fixed order, and W5 will come up instead, even though the most recent previous window was W1.
Can this be fixed?
I was able to confirm this here and have added it to our list to be fixed up.
Thanks!
