The overlay covers the page, which stops the mouse but not Tab and Space. The inert attribute removes the subtree from focus, hit-testing and the accessibility tree in one go - applied to every body-level sibling except the overlay, and always cleared in hideBusy.
GetLastActivePopup returns the form itself - the common Save dialog is not an owned popup - so the code that raises it never ran. It does live on our thread with the standard #32770 class, which EnumThreadWindows finds regardless of its owner.
Logging confirmed two things worth keeping: WM_HOTKEY is dispatched during the dialog modal loop, and IsWindowEnabled detects the state correctly.
The autofill helper attaches the caller to the TARGET thread, but the dialog runs on our own thread, so the attach was a no-op and Windows kept refusing the foreground change - the dialog rose without focus. Attaching to the current foreground thread instead is what grants the call.
SetForegroundWindow is refused when the hotkey comes from another application, so the dialog was raised but never focused; ForceForegroundWindow is now exposed by PM.Bridge for that. The explanation goes through a tray balloon because our window is disabled and behind the dialog, where no toast would be seen.
Ctrl+Shift+Q and Ctrl+Shift+A call RestoreWindowFromTray before JS can refuse, so a JS guard is too late by construction. Restoring the owner of a Save As dialog stranded it behind everything and the app looked frozen while it was only disabled.
NativeModalActive tests IsWindowEnabled - Windows disables the owner for the lifetime of the modal - and brings the dialog back to front via GetLastActivePopup instead of merely refusing.
The busy guard cancelled through the path that hands the foreground back to the captured target. During an export that pushed the native Save dialog behind the other application, leaving the app disabled by a modal the user could no longer find. refocus=0 separates refusing a request from ending a user interaction.
Guarded in autofillHandleRequest, upstream of the single-match versus picker split, so it covers Ctrl+Shift+L/P/T and both outcomes: the picker would open behind the overlay, and a single-match fill would minimise our window mid-operation. Cancels the request so Delphi drops the captured target HWND.
Global hotkeys come from Win32, outside the window, so the busy overlay intercepts nothing: Ctrl+Shift+A opened the editor behind it, unreachable. Guarded in openSlideOver and openQuickSearchModal rather than at each trigger - every caller routes through them, and no save path raises the overlay.
There are two Escape handlers: a capture-phase one for the editor and the global one-surface-per-keystroke chain. Only the first was guarded, so export - which reaches the editor through the global chain - still popped the discard-confirm under the overlay.
The discard-confirm opened underneath the busy overlay, which sits at z-index 200 - blurred and half-clickable. Worse than the display: it let the user arbitrate closing the editor while a sync or a rotation was writing to the same entry.
A 404 on save meant the work had to be copied out by hand. The POST mints a fresh uuid, so this is a new entry rather than a resurrection and cannot fight the tombstone the delete left behind. Gated on status 404 AND the server message: the HTTP layer answers 404 to any request it refuses, which the status alone would misread.
The UPDATE matched nothing but the handler still answered 200 Updated, so the editor reported Saved for an edit that went nowhere - the entry had been deleted by a sync or a purge after the editor opened it. Silent data loss; the client already surfaces a failed save as an error toast.
Records the two traps that invalidate the test: any PUT rebumps updated_at, undoing a manual rollback, and created_at plays no part in the arbitration.
Same placement as the TOTP field, which buys back a column on a dense row: label | value (eye inside) | copy | menu. Pinned top-right on a multiline field so it stays clear of the resize grip.
The inline copy button stays: copy is the frequent action and burying it costs a click every time. Unlike the old lock-versus-eye pair, two ways to copy are not confusable.
The lock button sat next to the eye and both masked the value, so they read as the same control. The eye now carries the state - cyan ring when the field is stored as secret - and flipping the flag moved into a row menu alongside Remove field, one deliberate step away from the everyday reveal. The row drops from six columns to five.
The menu reuses the card kebab classes, so closing it on an outside click is already handled.
A manual resize was lost on reopen: the row is rebuilt on every open, and remembering the height would not survive a restart either since localStorage is wiped when the ephemeral port changes the origin. Deriving it from the content removes the state entirely - the field is always the right size.
The note body of a note entry is the encrypted_password column, so logins had no way to carry notes. Rather than a dedicated encrypted column and the seven call sites that come with it, this rides on custom_fields, which rotation, duplicate, export/import and sync already carry.
Both the open-time normalisation and the save-time rebuild drop any key they do not name, so multiline is carried explicitly in each - otherwise the field silently reopens single-line.
unlockMode lived only in localStorage, wiped on every launch since the ephemeral port changes the origin, and in settings_json, which needs a session to read. The auth screen therefore always fell back to the master password on a cold start even though the PIN blob was there. Mirror it to a DPAPI pref and read it back in showAuth, like rememberedUsername.
openTrashActions is an empty stub and the trash kebab has no Edit item, so the scenario as written was not reachable. Rewritten around what is: the purge must leave an unrelated open editor alone, plus the one remote path that can actually trash an entry while it is being edited.
FMX shows its taskbar proxy before we hide it, so the launching console was left inactive. GStartupForeground, captured in the unit initialization before any window of ours exists, holds it. A Windows-startup launch is unaffected: the foreground is a shell window there, which the capture filters out.
Tabbing into an input already selects its whole content, so the second clear was redundant. Where Tab lands on something that is not editable - a link, a reveal button, the document, as on the Reddit login form - Ctrl+A selected the entire page instead and the password went nowhere.
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ForceForegroundWindow restores an iconic target, so closing to the tray would pop back open a window the user had deliberately minimised. Skip the handback in that case and leave the choice to Windows. A -tray launch also skips it: it never took the foreground from anyone.
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Hiding a window hands the foreground to nobody, so we stayed foreground while
invisible. The next hotkey then captured our own window as its target and typed
the password into it, and Ctrl+Shift+A opened a New entry with an empty title —
the guard correctly refusing to prefill with "Password Manager".
Track foreground changes with an EVENT_SYSTEM_FOREGROUND hook and keep the last
window that is neither ours nor a shell one, then reactivate it just before
hiding. Sampling on demand cannot work: by then the user's application is two
foreground changes behind (their app, the taskbar they clicked, us), and
reactivating after the hide is silently refused since only the current
foreground owner may give focus away.
Autofill paths pass AReturnForeground=False — they already placed the
foreground on the window they filled.
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Cancelling left the window on the desktop, though it had only been restored to
ask which entry to fill. Quick-search already hides itself on Esc; this makes
the picker symmetric. Applies to all three hotkeys — the capture and the hide
both sit on the shared BridgeAutofillRequest / autofill/cancel paths, so full,
password-only and TOTP behave identically.
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Only the quick-search path captured whether the window was tray-hidden and fed
it back as hide_after; JS never sends that parameter from the autofill picker,
so Ctrl+Shift+L pulled the window out of the tray and left it on the desktop.
Capture it in BridgeAutofillRequest instead, when the hotkey fires — by execute
time the picker has already restored the window and the state is gone. Same
rule as quick-search: tray-hidden only, a taskbar-minimised window is not sent
to the tray it never came from.
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Widening rcNormalPosition while the window was down did remove the restore
flash, but SetWindowPlacement left a small stub frame in a corner of the screen
whenever the window was maximised — during the minimise animation and equally
once the window was already iconic. A permanent visible artefact is worse than
an ugly animation, so this goes back to the validated behaviour: correct final
state, flash still present.
The flash itself is an FMX bug, reproducible in an empty FMX app. Rationale and
the five rejected approaches are recorded in TEST_SCENARIOS.md I1.
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FMX drops the maximised state when Windows minimises the form externally —
reproducible in an empty FMX app. Windows then picks rcNormalPosition as the
restore target before it animates, so every reactive correction measured (queued,
inline in MINIMIZEEND, inside the restore's own WM_SIZE) landed after the frame
was already growing: the state ended correct and the flash remained.
Widen rcNormalPosition to the monitor work area while the window is down instead.
FMX still restores to normal, except normal is now full-screen, so nothing grows;
ReleaseNormalRect writes the real rectangle back once the window is maximised
again, keeping the user's own restored size intact.
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The MINIMIZEEND correction was posted through ForceQueue. Instrumenting the
hook showed the window state identical at the hook and one message-loop turn
later, so the queue guarded no race and only bought the normal-sized frame the
user saw. ApplyWantedWindowState now runs inline; the deferred pass stays as an
idempotent net.
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The comment justified deferring btnStartClick by the taskbar-proxy exposure
window, which the .dpr fix has since removed. Kept as-is per decision — it
works and reaching the tray sooner is desirable — but the comment now says
that, so nobody "fixes" it later against a premise that no longer holds.
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L1 hidden start with no taskbar button, L2 the button coming back on restore,
L3 the normal launch (validated). Records why every fix placed inside the form
was powerless: the FMX proxy is shown before FormCreate is reached.
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Committed by accident while testing the tray launch. Left in, every F9 from
the IDE would start hidden in the tray — the exact confusion the parameter is
worth warning about. It is a local debugging preference, not project config.
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Adopts the approach that actually works: ApplicationHWND (FMX.Platform.Win) IS
the taskbar proxy, so there is nothing to hunt for and it is valid before the
form exists. And hiding it was never enough — the taskbar had already drawn
the button; clearing WS_EX_APPWINDOW and setting WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW is what
removes it, since a tool window is never listed.
That style is permanent, which is why the button never came back after a
restore. TrayProxyShowInTaskbar puts it back, called from
RestoreWindowFromTray — the single choke point every tray restore already goes
through — so it lands before RestoreFromTray shows the windows and the style
takes effect on that show.
Removes the scaffolding this chase accumulated and that the real fix makes
pointless: the EVENT_OBJECT_SHOW hook, the polling worker, FindOurFMXAppWindow,
TrayHideNow with its four probes, the one-shot OnActivate hide, and the [tray]
tracing. ~4.8 KB of dead code.
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Decisive observation: the taskbar button is already up before FormCreate is
entered. Everything I had tried lived inside the form, so all of it ran after
the button was drawn — the watcher included, which is why moving it around
never helped.
StartTrayProxyHider is now exported from UMainForm and called from the .dpr
right after Application.Initialize, before CreateForm. It polls every 5 ms and
hides our TFMAppClass proxy unconditionally (the button can be up before
WS_VISIBLE reads as set, which the previous IsWindowVisible check would have
skipped), stopping as soon as the tray startup completes so a user restoring
from the tray is never fought.
Raw Win32 only — FindWindowEx + ShowWindow, no FMX object touched at that
point, which is what made the earlier .dpr attempt crash.
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