Focus option in Forward search DDE command

[lnay]

I'm trying out the forward search feature (trying to work it into the Zed LaTeX extension) but I can't seem to find a way to do this without refocusing the preview window (instead of keeping the editor window in focus to keep typing without alt-tab).

Right now I'm doing:

(...)\SumatraPDF.exe -dde "[ForwardSearch(\"PDF\", \"TEXFILE\", 2, 0, 0, 0)]"

(which forward searches correctly, just refocuses the sumatraPDF window every time)

Based on the docs, I'm assuming that the last 0 is meant to precisely avoid the preview refocusing. Can I confirm whether this is the intended behaviour? Or am I misinterpreting what "focus" here means?

SumatraPDF 3.5.2 64bit commit 646d1fe
Windows 11 home 26100.6584

[GitHubRulesOK]

You don't have to use DDE but if you do -Forward-Search is very specific ability. So you are firing an instruction into the memory which tells a server ("Sumatra") to "control" its viewport and display in the GUI a given line (with optional highlighting). This means SumatraPDF will rise to be the foreground app.
Thus, I guess that is your question? How to inverse search the editor so it is refocused and that is generally use double click to go back to either the CLI OR DDE caller. SumatraPDF in its settings can store ONCE (avoid using the inverse command every time) the Tex command to return via reverse (inverse) search. double click on the long word in SumatraPDF returns control to the Notpad editor and optionally the editor highlights the source line there

If I again call from the editor

sumatrapdf -forward-search sync.tex 15 sync.pdf

SumatraPDF will naturaly be to the foreground

Using DDE there can be a difference so the traditional CLI equivalence for me will be (needs absolute path)

sumatrapdf -dde "[ForwardSearch(\"C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\Apps\PDF\SumatraPDF\LATeX and Reverse-Search\sync.pdf\", \"sync.tex\", 15, 0, 0, 1)]"

With 1 enforces focus NOTE I am using 3.6 PRE-RELEASE

With 0 the focus stays with the caller

[lnay]

Interesting, I'm not getting the same behaviour as you in the last screenshot situation, I will try again the pre-release version and report back.

[lnay]

Yeah it worked as expected on the pre-release