@maxim_k wrote:
The workaround for the first issue - lost input focus - is to ensure that mouse cursor is above the palette when you want to use search in it, because as soon as you move mouse out of the materials palette the input focus moves to the drawing area and input from the keyboard moves to it.
Hi Maxim, I tried leaving the mouse over the palette but it doesn't seem to work consistently and then when closing ACAD down and loading it again it was back to not working. I also noticed that you can paste text into the search bar with the right-click menu, but it goes in as grey text appended to the 'Search' text that is already there. The right-click menu is also very windowsesque which seems to indicate it isn't running quite right.
Strangely enough all other search boxes seem to work fine (such as the layers one), it's just this one acting up.
With more clicking, I can get it to function more frequently now. With the Materials browser open, it appears to have zero focus and is not brought into focus by clicking the text field (or other objects in the browser). If I click the grey part of the window with nothing in it just left of the text field, then click in the search field it accepts typed characters. Once this has occurred it behaves normally until ACAD is closed - workaround sorted 