made the "have to sometimes focus menu bar"-problem less annoying.

the menu bar is ONLY selected now when we switch to a non-MDI-subwin which
shares tool- and menubar (because this is the only case where it's necessary)

tiny indentation fix in dcanvas.cpp

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/muse2/muse/app.cpp b/muse2/muse/app.cpp
index 84b5121c..1fcfef56 100644
--- a/muse2/muse/app.cpp
+++ b/muse2/muse/app.cpp
@@ -3102,9 +3102,15 @@ void MusE::activeTopWinChangedSlot(TopWin* win)
 {
   if (MusEGlobal::debugMsg) printf("ACTIVE TOPWIN CHANGED to '%s' (%p)\n", win ? win->windowTitle().toAscii().data() : "<None>", win);
   
-  if ((win==NULL) || (win->isMdiWin()==false))
+  if (win && (win->isMdiWin()==false) && win->sharesToolsAndMenu())
   {
-    if (MusEGlobal::debugMsg) printf("  that's out of the MDI area\n");
+    if (MusEGlobal::debugMsg) printf("  that's a menu sharing muse window which isn't inside the MDI area.\n");
+    // if a window gets active which a) is a muse window, b) is not a mdi subwin and c) shares menu- and toolbar,
+    // then unfocus the MDI area and/or the currently active MDI subwin. otherwise you'll be unable to use win's
+    // tools or menu entries, as whenever you click at them, they're replaced by the currently active MDI subwin's
+    // menus and toolbars.
+    // as unfocusing the MDI area and/or the subwin does not work for some reason, we must do this workaround:
+    // simply focus anything in the main window except the mdi area.
     menuBar()->setFocus(Qt::MenuBarFocusReason);
   }