I have been experiencing a really small, but annoying bug in Maximizer 9. It involves the Quick Search button on the tool bar. A brief description is this:

If you are looking at the Calendar window and want to search for some one in the Address Book, you click on the Quick Search tool bar button. Up pops the Quick Search dialog box, as expected. However, right after that the Calendar window is replaced (behind the Quick Search box) with the Address Book window. When this "window switch" happens, the Quick Search box loses the Windows focus and appears grayed-out, like a background window. You have to click on the Quick Search dialog box to enter the desired name for which to search.

I realize this is minor, but in normal office use I pop around Maximizer's windows all the time and frequently use the Quick Search window. Having to click 2 times and having to move my mouse from the tool bar to the Quick Search window is very combersome and slows down the lookup I am trying to make.

I tried most of the other windows and found that this behavior does not seem happen when you are in any window other than the calendar window. For the rest of them, the Quick Search box pops up and you can begin typing right away.

Has anyone else experienced this bug?

Thanks,
Steve

Quick Search to me seems to move up the address book window but the quick search box keeps focus (in Enterprise 9.5).

I would generally just go to the address book with Ctrl-1 and then do a search from there alt-s-whatever, but it seems that you use Maximizer in a completely different way than I do.

You might try alt-tab or ctrl-tab (with or without shift) to see if it brings you back to the desired window.

If it really bothers you, you could possibly write an autohotkey macro (autohotkey.com), but I'm not quite sure exactly what you want to do.

Oh, you have the right idea about what I want to do. That is, I want to use the Quick Search box to search!

It sounds like it works properly in Enterprise. In Maximizer, the address book window does get moved up like you described. But the quick search loses focus.

Your suggestions do work, too. The Alt-tab is the other way I get the focus back to the QS window. Perhaps I'll just have to get used to Ctrl-1'ing before I search. I was hoping to cut down on the clicks and keys when using Maximizer, however.

Thanks for the reply!

OK. You know what is REALLY weird in this behavior? The "loss of focus" does NOT happen when you are viewing the Calendar window in a Month view. It does happen when you are viewing Today, Daily or Weekly mode.

Go figure...