Opening a new split console hides Quake-Style window - conemu

I'm using powershell -new_console:as to open a new elevated powershell in a split view.
Unfortunately, my open console is hidden by that, and I need to hit the hotkey to unhide it again. Can I prevent this somehow?
My Quake-Style settings
Quake style slide down (checked)
Auto-hide on focus lose (checked)
Always on top (checked)

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I have a use case where we have an application with a tabcontrol with 2 or more tab items . I want to be able to open a modal Window (using Window.showDialogue()) so the user is blocked to do any thing else within the active tab item from where the modal window was opened . But should be able to click on other tab item and continue to do the work .
Currently Window.showDialogue() completely blocks all user interactions until the window is closed . Is it possible to change the scope of the blocking window to just the initiating tab item ?
As an alternative , I have a overlay design to show the popup content using the Panel.Zindex and then disable the underlying controls container . But I would prefer to do the simple way of window.showdialogue().
Any help would be appreciated.
As far as I know, here is no way to block only part of a Window when calling ShowDialog. The blocking is done at the Window level by the OS. You'll have to manually disable that tab.
Be aware that if you simply put another element on top of the tab to obscure it, the user may still be able to access the controls below by using the Tab key. You might need to set IsEnabled to false, or maybe IsHitTestVisible, depending on the how you want the application to behave.

Switch to other site from main application

In my current application, manually when i click on a Button say 'Buy' button it takes me to a different site within the same browser (in another tab).
Usually I can switch to the Tab using
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
But while am doing it in automation the second site is opening in a different browser. How can i handle this. I want this to open within a the same browser like how its happening when i do it manually. Please help me out. Thanks in advance.
You don't define the programming language, but in Java it is as follows:
// Store the current window handle
String winHandleBefore = driver.getWindowHandle();
// Perform the click operation that opens new window
// Switch to new window opened
for(String winHandle : driver.getWindowHandles()){
driver.switchTo().window(winHandle);
}
// Perform the actions on new window
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Source: How to switch to the new browser window, which opens after click on the button?

Popup windows that automatically close in Selenium Webdriver

My Selenium Webdriver test is something like:
Click button -> this opens popup window
Iterate through all window handles and switch to popup window
Fill out form on popup window and submit.
At this point, the popup window might automatically close if the input was valid or it will stay open if there is an error on the form.
My question is, if the window automatically closes and that was the window handle I had focus on, what happens exactly? Is there a way for me to detect that the window has closed?
Thanks
If the focused window closed, then the Web Driver instance had no focus on any window and it throw an exception if you are trying to find any element. It throws NoSuchElementException when you trying to find an element. You can check the window presence by counting the number of windows.
The windows handles keeps the record of pop of window even if it closes automatically. So you have to switch to the parent window. And then use the print statement for Windows.title to check which window is opened.

How can I show a FolderBrowserDialog more than once?

In my Windows Form's Form_Load event, I want to show a FolderBrowserDialog to let the user select a directory, and if the directory they've selected is not valid (meaning it lacks certain files that the application needs), I want to show it again. However, when I create a new FolderBrowserDialog, it does not appear when I call ShowDialog.
while (ValidDirectorySelected() == false && tryAgain == true)
{
using (FolderBrowserDialog dialog = new FolderBrowserDialog())
{
dialog.ShowNewFolderButton = false;
if (dialog.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel)
{
tryAgain = false;
}
}
}
When I step into it, the dialog.ShowDialog() line is reached on the second time, and then nothing happens. The dialog does not appear, and the debugger doesn't move on. It just stops. It works perfectly the first time, but not the second. I've even tried just copying that entire using block and pasting it right after the first one, and the same thing happens. The dialog shows only once.
What do I need to do to show a FolderBrowserDialog more than once?
Solution:
Passing 'this' to ShowDialog fixed my issue. I also moved the using to outside of the while loop, to avoid needlessly re-creating the dialog.
Minimize Visual Studio, you'll find the dialog back.
This is a focus issue, triggered because you display the dialog in the Load event. When the dialog closes, there is no window left in your app that can receive the focus. Your Load event hasn't finished running so the app's main window isn't yet visible. Windows has to find a window to give the focus to and will select one from another program. Like Visual Studio.
When you display the dialog again, it cannot steal the focus back because Visual Studio has acquired it. So the dialog appears behind Visual Studio's main window, out of view.
You'll have to fix this by allowing your main window to become visible. And call dialog.ShowDialog(this) to be completely sure. You could use the Shown event, for example.
Try this:
using (FolderBrowserDialog dialog = new FolderBrowserDialog())
{
while (ValidDirectorySelected() == false && tryAgain == true)
{
dialog.ShowNewFolderButton = false;
if (dialog.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel)
{
tryAgain = false;
}
}
}
...move your using outside the while loop to keep from destroying the folder browser every time. You don't have to do that. You can reuse FolderBrowserDialog.

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I am using the ToolStripDropDown to host the user control as the pop-up window. The problem is when a context menu strip is displayed from within this pop-up window, the pop-up itself closes in the moment the context menu opens.
I have tried to subclass the ContextMenuStrip and added WS_EX_NOACTIVATE to CreateParams but nothing changed. First I thought that there is no way to do this since it is common behavior but then I tried to put a TextBox class onto the pop-up user control and invoke the Edit control context menu - and the parent pop-up window did not close.
What am I missing?
Had a similary Problem. On my UserControll was a toolstrip. When I pressed the toolsstripdropdownbutton the dropdown was shown but the popup disapeared.
The reason was that popup.Autoclose was true. After Setting to false the Popup is not closed any more.
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popup.Padding = Padding.Empty;
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Actual Solution should be the one in Martin's final comment:
Use ContextMenu Instead of ContextMenuStrip
That one worked for me, and the ToolStripDropDown no longer closes by itself when right clicking one of its content controls, like it should. We still need it to AutoClose, disabling AutoClose on ToolStripDropDown will do bad things, it is supposed to close on losing focus. Example: open any other app window, and the ToolStripDropDown will continue to appear on top

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