iLogic Focus Stealing

[ben.goodelliott]

Hi folks, I'm posting here to see if anybody else is experiencing the same bug that my team is.

We do pretty heavy programming in iLogic (Inventor 2021) and spend much of our days in the iLogic editor. Many times when we're typing in the editor, our cursor disappears from the editor window and we need to click back into the editor to continue typing. As best as we can tell, the editor window becomes 'unfocused' and some other window, seemingly the main window of Inventor gets the 'focus'.  (To clarify what I mean by 'focus' I mean whatever program window is highlighted on the task bar, or whatever program window would be affected by typing. )

Has anybody else had this bug? We don't know if this is localized to our team or if this is a broader issue.

[WCrihfield]

Hi @ben.goodelliott.  I have also been encountering that issue for many years, and do not know how to stop it from happening.  I believe it coincides with Inventor's 'autosave' routine.  A little reminder will pop-up every once in a while reminding me to save my document, and I always try to click the little 'do not remind me again' link, but I don't think that works very well.  I have even tried turning off the setting on the Application Options > Save tab > called "Save Reminder Timer", but it seems to always turn itself back on eventually.  Very frustrating, I know.  It will also drop your VBA Editor screen, if you were working in that when it happens sometimes, which is also pretty frustrating.  Luckily I do not use the VBA Editor that much anymore, in favor of iLogic.

[ben.goodelliott]

Thanks for the info @WCrihfield, I'll keep an eye out to see if that matches what I'm experiencing! 

[ben.goodelliott]

Follow up for those following along at home: I experienced the bug again, however there didn't seem to be any connection to the save reminder.