When launching unique dialogs / tabs, bring them into focus

[Sebastian-ubs]

User Story
As a user, I want to receive feedback on doing an action (like clicking a menu entry) also for tabs / dialogs that are unique, so that I can see where I have to focus to continue my workflow.

Description
See https://discord.com/channels/1064938364597436416/1304396273142730772
If current (may be hidden behind other tabs)

• bring it to the top
• make it flash (visual effect)
• make it the active-active tab

Requires

• Be able to set the active tab #1376

[tjcouch-sil]

Regarding anything around "active tab" and focus, we do not currently have anything for this. This is a very complex and difficult subject. It is unfortunately very challenging to track focus on an iframe.

See #662

javascript - Setting focus to iframe contents - Stack Overflow

javascript - Detecting when an iframe gets or loses focus - Stack Overflow

Edit fiddle - JSFiddle - Code Playground

[Sebastian-ubs]

Thank you for sharing. This is important information!

[Sebastian-ubs]

From what I've seen an existing tab is also not getting to the top. Is this expected right now?

[tjcouch-sil]

I'd say it's more indeterminate than unexpected. We didn't do any work to try to make anything happen in particular, so I guess whatever the dock layout is coded to do is what it does.

[tombogle]

I think I also noticed this today. With the settings view open (either maximized or covering the majority of the main window client area), commands like Open Scripture Editor or Paratext Registration Information seemed to do nothing, when in fact they were busily opening views behind the settings window. This makes the program pretty much impossible to use for normal users.