window.focus not working

[kavadog]

I'm using Cefclient 2526 64bit on Windows 8. From my javascript, I'm doing var w = window.open() to create a second browser window. This works fine and at this moment the new window has focus. I then click on the first/original window. I then use w.focus() to change the focus back to the second window. This fails.

Same test works correctly on Chrome browser.

What am I doing wrong?

[magreenblatt]

Are you implementing CefFocusHandler for the popup window? Are any of the methods called when you execute w.focus()?

[kavadog]

Yes, I implemented CefFocusHandler. GetFocus/SetFocus don't get called on w.focus. They do get called when I click on the Window title bar.

[magreenblatt]

OK, please add a bug in the CEF issue tracker.

[kavadog]

OK, I will open an issue.

As a workaround, I'm going to add a CefRequestHandler and expose a setfocus(window) method that can be called from javascript that will call the CefBrowserHost->SetFocus.

However, I don't know how to lookup the correct browser/frame context from a JS window object passed into CefRequestHandler via my setfocus(window) extension. Any thoughts on that one?

[magreenblatt]

You can use CefBrowser::GetIdentifier() to retrieve the unique identifier for the CefBrowser. You can then pass that value to the browser process and have a lookup there to match the CefBrowsers that you've created, maintaining the CefBrowser list using calls to OnAfterCreated and OnBeforeClose.

[bharkanna]

@magreenblatt
Could you please let us know if there's any successful change/workaround to solve this issue.

[bharkanna]

OK, I will open an issue.

As a workaround, I'm going to add a CefRequestHandler and expose a setfocus(window) method that can be called from javascript that will call the CefBrowserHost->SetFocus.

However, I don't know how to lookup the correct browser/frame context from a JS window object passed into CefRequestHandler via my setfocus(window) extension. Any thoughts on that one?

Were you able to get it work ?