record window focus not exchanged properly (video/audio stays on old window or completely off)

some games/apps operate app window in a way that makes OBS lose focus on the window, ie, you have to click the show/hide button to switch to the new window with the proper name, and still video/audio (window audio) might/will not be working properly, like if the input window is still locked to the wrong window or to nothing at all.

at least even if you dont wish to do real-time swapping of record input window focus, then at least the show/hide/active button should be made work properly, to make the input window focus work properly, now its a random chance if it gets the right/any input window focus at all.

it might be that the window selection method does not currently work properly (selection: window by title, then window of same executable etc).
usually it requires the user to foreground the app window, only then obs switches to it, even not then like the window audio input device.
 
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AaronD

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On a system with many windows open, how should OBS know to switch to <that one> now, instead of some other one?

If it's "always foreground", then that's a screen or display capture, which already exists.

I've noticed myself that it often wants an exact match to the window title that it had last time, which is understandable. A regex would be nice, so if a browser window is looking at a different page for example, I can have the window capture only look for the browser name and not the page name as well, but I didn't think it was all that hard to have it all set up before an event, and have that be just one more thing to check and quickly set right. There's a list of those anyway, so what's one more?
 
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