shift-click vs right-click "Close Window"

[Worker]

bug/feature request:

You can shift-click items in the window list to close them. However, using this method to close a window that is not the current window first makes the window the current window and then closes it. This causes a lot of flashing and flickering of the screen.

Closing a window using right-click "Close Window" doesn't do this. It simply closes the window in the background. It would be nice if shift-click worked exactly the same way.

 

[Marco Kalter]

We'll enhance this.

 

[Worker]

It seems like you may have tried to address this in the 1769 build. If not, please ignore this But if so, it's not quite there yet.

Right-click "Close Window" on a background window in the Window List keeps the current window on screen, and doesn't do any screen re-painting.

Shift-clicking on a background window in the Window List blanks out the main area, showing the gray background that shows when no windows are open. It also blanks out the Object Browser showing a big white area.

Both methods bring me back to editing in my current window in about the same amount of time, but shift-clicking is visually a lot noisier.

With shift-clicking I can also make weird things happen. If I shift-click a background window, then quickly click back into my current window, sometimes the background window I shift-clicked doesn't close. Instead it becomes my foreground window, and whatever window was below it in the window list gets closed instead.