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Activate a dock app after the clock opens Action Center - #13
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The retry only helps when a flyout was dismissed; otherwise it kept the dock's UI thread waiting another 400 ms before reporting the failure. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes #11.
When the Action Center (or the Start menu or search) is open, it holds the foreground from an AppContainer, so Windows refuses both a plain
SetForegroundWindowand thread-input attachment. Clicking a running-app icon in the dock therefore did nothing until the flyout was closed by hand.focusnow sends Escape when the foreground belongs to a shell flyout host (ShellExperienceHost,StartMenuExperienceHost,SearchHost,ShellHost), waits for it to close, and then activates the clicked window. It also waits briefly for the activation to land, since Windows reports the switch a moment after the call while the flyout closes.Verified on Windows 11: with Notepad3 in front, clicking the clock to open the Action Center and then a different app's dock icon brings that app to the front.