Probable Bug - Mac multi screen function screws up search / focus

When I have more than one monitor on, where the 'main' matlab window is on one and one editor window is on the other, and where the search/replace box is on the second, and where I am working in the main matlab window, if I click on the editor window in the second monitor, focus will move to the search dialog box instead. This happens with command-` consistently as well (if I am on edit window in second display, then move to main, and then cmd-`, the focus moves to the find dialog which is NOT the most recent and thus an error). Often, when I click - moving from main to editor, and begin typing or do a paste, the paste goes into the find dialog instead.

Answer 1

[Prateek Jain]

Hi Dennis,

You are facing issues when you work on multi-screens. It is not reproducible as per step but as per my understanding, find-dialog is common for all plain editors so you have to pull it in a focused editor. you are looking in the main window’s editor but your find-dialog is placed in the second screen’s editor which you placed editor using undocked. During focus change of windows, you want to write/paste text in the main window but it is placing text in find-dialog. If I am getting correctly, we are aware of these issues and in future releases, you will get redesigned and thin find-strip instead of dialog which will be the integrated part of each editor. So, you will not need to pull find-dialog in the active editor.

Answer 2

[Dennis Van Dusen]

Answer appears to be:

we are aware of these issues and in future releases, you will get redesigned and thin find-strip instead of dialog

Accepted