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Find symbol hotkey catching when RD is not active #5320

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IvenBach opened this issue Dec 12, 2019 · 4 comments
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Find symbol hotkey catching when RD is not active #5320

IvenBach opened this issue Dec 12, 2019 · 4 comments
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@IvenBach
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Version 2.4.1.20935
OS: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.18362.0, x64
Host Product: Microsoft Office 2013 x86
Host Version: 15.0.5023.1000
Host Executable: EXCEL.EXE

Description
This is an intermittent issue. When using the hotkey Ctrl+T to open a new browser tab, which is also the same as Find Symbol, RD is latching onto it. RD displays the Find Symbol dialog even though the VBA IDE isn't the active window.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Have VBA IDE open in background
  2. Active window is a browser
  3. Ctrl+T to open a new tab. Occassionally no tab is created since RD is grabbing the hotkey for Find Symbol and displays that dialog.

Expected behavior
When RD is in the background none of its hotkeys should be listening.

Additional context
IIRC this has come up before and at that time had been resolved. As this is not 100% reproducible I'll update if when I can determine a consistent cause.

@IvenBach IvenBach added the bug Identifies work items for known bugs label Dec 12, 2019
@Greedquest
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Yes I frequently switch to Excel to find the "find symbol" dialogue open; didn't realise this was the cause, but sounds plausible

@interservices
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interservices commented Jul 16, 2022

Ah thanks IvenBach!
I came to this page after finding for the nth time today an unrequested RD "Find Symbol" open after the alt+tab to VBE. And seconds before I had to press Ctrl+T two times in Edge to make it work!

So 3 years after your messages the problem is still here, with the latest version of RD and Excel 64bit.

@retailcoder
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Won't fix the hotkey hooking, but note that all hotkeys can be configured in the settings dialog; if Ctrl+T is disruptive, consider changing it to another, less-used key, or tick the "Shift" box to make it Ctrl+Shift+T.

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Ah, thanks for the suggestions!
I eventually changed the RD shortcut of "Find symbol" to Ctrl+Alt+T as I also sometime use the Edge/Chrome Ctrl+Shift+T for restoring closed tabs and there's another feature of RD that defaults to Ctrl+Shift+T (Test Explorer).

BTW: in my previous message I wrongly wrote "press Ctrl+T in Edge to make it work" insted than "press Ctrl+T two times in Edge to make it work". Edited now.

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