Startup lister icon blinks on task bar

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Why does the startup lister always call for attention when starting widows ?
The lister icon on the taskbar always blinks on startup frequently interfering with what I am trying to do at the time.

2

That can happen to any application which opens a window and was launched by something which doesn't have focus (or doesn't allow focus to pass to it). It's something Windows does.

You can change how long the taskbar button flashes for via the registry:

3

I think I have asked about the following before.

When I click on the minimize, windows does not accept that as a response to the notification.
I am forced to a 2nd step to actually click the icon on the taskbar making my work twice as long.

4

It should stop flashing as soon as the window gains focus, which seems to happen just before it is minimised when you click the minimise button. Maybe there is a Windows bug there. But it's not something Opus has any real control over, as Opus isn't what's flashing the taskbar; the taskbar does that itself.

The only times when Opus explicitly asks Windows to flash the taskbar icon are when these happen and Opus is in the background:

  • When the update checker detects an update.
  • When there's an error message at the end of an unattended copy job.
  • When prompting to replace a file.
  • When prompting to upload an externally-modified file to an FTP site.
  • When there's an error while searching in the button editor and some other edit controls.

Of those, only the update checker is likely on startup, but you'd also see the update checker, and it'd stop happening after installing the update (or turning off the update checker).

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For some reason, I had always expected the minimize action to resolve the issue.
There must have been a time that this was true, IMHO :slight_smile:

Thanks for you input, Leo

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I would expect it to as well. If you click and hold the minimise button and wait before releasing it, you can see that the window is visibly active at that point, which I would expect to make the taskbar stop flashing it. But maybe the taskbar skips a step.

(It's also possible that another window is the one that is flashing, not the one being minimised, maybe? If there is more than one open.)