Focus follows mouse in 2015a

I have recently updated to R2015a on a windows 7 machine. I use focus-follows-mouse (you can change this in the registry), but it my Matlab window is one of the few windows where a mouse-click is necessary to make it the active window to type in. Has anyone experienced the same behaviour and is this by design?

[Doug King]

Still does this in R2018B - very irritating, and causes me to type in the wrong application/window constantly.

[Doug King]

Correction - it's much worse than irritating, it's downright dangerous when keystrokes go to the wrong window. Who knows what my typing is doing in another application? It could be deleting things I want to keep, answering another application's dialog boxes, sending who knows what email to where, etc.

[Temu Gautama]

I have found a workaround which yields acceptable results. I get automatic focus, but the matlab command window is also auto-raised. In any case, here's what I did:

I call this function from my startup.m to create a callback for the command window

function focus()
    mde = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance;
    cw = mde.getClient( 'Command Window' );
    xCmdWndView = cw.getComponent(0).getViewport.getComponent(0);
    h_cw = handle( xCmdWndView, 'CallbackProperties' );

    commName = 'matlabFocus.exe';
    dir1 = 'c:\SomePlace\';
    comm1 = fullfile( dir1, commName );

    function callMe( varargin )
        dosFast( ['"' comm1  '" &'] );
    end

    set( h_cw, 'MouseEnteredCallback', @callMe );
end

This matlabFocus.exe I created using a tool called AutoIt. The code looks for the matlab window, activates it and sends ctrl-0 to switch to the command window.

 Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle( "[REGEXPTITLE:MATLAB [7R]*]" );

 If @error Then
	 MsgBox( $MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "An error occurred when trying to retrieve the window handle of Matlab" )
	 Exit
 EndIf

; Set focus of the matlab window
WinActivate( $hWnd ) ; This works

Send( "^0" )	; Switch to command window

It's a bit of a clumsy work-around, but, hey, it works.

hth,

Temu

[Temu Gautama]

I forgot the function dosFast:

function dosFast( cmd1 )
    hRuntime = java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime();
    process = hRuntime.exec( cmd1 );
%    status = process.waitFor();
end

(can be put in the focus() function before the callMe() definition)