# Designer - Event handlers window steals focus unnecessarily

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-event-handlers-window-steals-focus-unnecessarily/5176>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 24, 2012, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-event-handlers-window-steals-focus-unnecessarily/5176 "2012-09-24T10:58:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![systemparadox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@systemparadox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/systemparadox)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-event-handlers-window-steals-focus-unnecessarily/5176/1 "2012-09-24T10:58:21Z")

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If the ‘event handlers’ window is open it is not possible to use any other part of the designer. If another designer window is clicked (either the main designer or the script module editor), the ‘event handlers’ window jumps to the front and steals the focus.

I’m finding this behaviour a bit frustrating. If I’m working with an event handler script, I would really like to be able to also see the components, windows, custom properties or global script module code that the event handler script is interacting with, without the event handler window getting in the way.

Is there any chance that the focus options for the event handler window can be changed to fix this?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![dave.fogle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@dave.fogle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dave.fogle)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-event-handlers-window-steals-focus-unnecessarily/5176/2 "2012-09-24T17:43:45Z")

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I'll put in a feature request to see if we can get this changed.