Alternatives To Focus Stealing
These are alternative methods for grabbing the attention of the user that could be used instead of focus stealing:
- Pulse the application's icon in the task bar, leaving the application in the background
- Output a message to the notification area
- Pulsate the display over scan area
- Use an audible alerting framework
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