Window Focus gets shifted away from Viewport on Play (causes unintended inputs)

[aaron_mccoy (PleaseDontBanAaron)]

Been noticing a recurring issue lately where whenever I hit play to start my experience, the focus goes away from the Viewport and onto another widget (such as Properties or Explorer).

Because of this, my movement inputs (such as WASD) end up being typed directly into the search bar instead. This isn’t a huge issue by itself, but overtime it ends up wasting a lot of time having to refocus to the Viewport frequently and randomly, which is very annoying to deal with. There have been many times I’ve thought my characters inputs were broken/not working because of it.

I’m not too sure if this logic is intentional or not, but ideally it would be nice if focus always gets shifted to the Viewport when hitting play.

Link to previous posts mentioning this issue:

"Filter properties" input is focused every time play solo is started/stopped

Every time I start and stop play solo, the “Filter properties” input in the properties window is focused without me doing anything that would cause it to be focused. I thought this was just me, but after asking around in Discord it seems like it’s happening to other people too. [CleanShot 2023-05-16 at 21.54.32] I have experienced this bug on macOS Ventura and Windows 11. Sadly very frustrating, but it’s so subtle that I didn’t realize what was happening until now [CleanShot 2023-05-16 at 21…

Automatic focus on filter property when press play

i am not sure what catagory this should be but I will put it here. Whenever I click on the play button my keyboard automatically gets focus on “filter property” in the properties window, so whenever I want to like move with WASD it just types into the search bar until I click into the game window to refocus on the game. This is super annoying, does anyone know why this happens or how to fix it?

[VGVC2]

This is an extremely annoying thing and I’m so glad someone finally reported it.

Video where I press F5 to enter play test

[NightlyShores]

We’re tracking this bug here!

Interacting With Properties Window Sets Focus On Filter Text Box

Description Certain actions (described below) cause the “Filter Properties” textbox of the properties window to become focused when interacting with unrelated buttons. Although this may seem relatively harmless, it causes major impediments to workflow. To exemplify, if a property is disabled and a user wants to move their camera via the w, a, s, d keys, all of those inputs are accepted as text rather than controls. Additionally, key commands are affected as well. Any time this property is trigg…

[VGVC2]

Very good to know it’s already known, but I want to point out that report doesn’t specifically or clearly mention the case pointed out in this report, where play testing will also focus on the properties/explorer search input, so please ensure what’s mentioned in this report is taken into account as well!

[Mayorfoxia82 (BigGoldenRetriever)]

this still needs to be fixed. surely it would take no more than 2 minutes for roblox to fix this. now at least 11 people have wasted more than 2 minutes searching for this bug report

[NightlyShores]

Hi all, this should be fixed now in any new Studio instances. Please see this duplicate thread for details:

"Filter properties" input is focused every time play solo is started/stopped

Hi all, this should be fixed now in any new Studio instances! Just relaunch studio and let me know! Thank you for your report here! This was a long standing issue and it took a lot of effort to get a consistent repo! We couldn’t have done this without the community. In the effort of respecting the community more, shoutout to @unroot, @Zomebody, and @Dogekidd2012, and many others who kept on answering questions until I figured out what was wrong.