How to open a folder on windows and focus it?

[blarfoon]

Currently when I open a folder through explorer with open, it opens it correctly but it's not focused, the explorer window is minimized. Is there any way to bring it to focus automatically after opening?

[Seeker14491]

I can't reproduce this issue; on my Windows 10 PC the opened folder gets focused. What Windows version are you on?

[blarfoon]

Windows 11. I have a decently popular app and I get quite a few complaints about this so it's not just a me issue. Let me know if I can be of any help.

[Seeker14491]

I'm assuming the app in question is the new GDLauncher. I installed it, and after installing an instance and right-clicking it and selecting "Open folder", the folder did open, but it wasn't focused. It seems inconsistent though; I tried it several times, and sometimes it focuses, sometimes not. I'm thinking it's probably a kind of race condition between the click on your app focusing your app, and opener focusing the explorer window.

[blarfoon]

It is weird though because switching to electron's native open folder method always works. Also I would expect the explorer window to pop up but be behind GDL, not be fully minimized

[blarfoon]

Both electron's method and opener go through IPC, but opener has to go through a websocket connection as well so technically it should be even slower than electron's one

[Seeker14491]

There's an open issue about Electron's shell.openPath() also having the issue of the window appearing in the background: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/36765 Therefore I believe this is an Electron issue that I can't fix from my side.