Priority Focus app -

[Anders]

From our reading it looks to be that the app has to be registered correctly. To do this means it has to have a

Where are you reading this?

Other than the answer on Stackoverflow, I don't know what else to say.

The WinShell plug-in was invented before focus assist.

Do you see other non-Microsoft apps in the list?

[willwade]

I'm creating a Windows App that will give toast notifications. The problem is we want it to be available in the "Focus Assist Priority Apps List". Basically you can allow any app to notify you when you are in a full screen app IF the app is in this list. From our reading it looks to be that the app has to be registered correctly. To do this means it has to have a

This code looks promising - https://github.com/safing/nsis-shortcut-properties - but its three years old and I cant get it to work on Windows 10.

There is this too - https://nsis.sourceforge.io/WinShell_plug-in - and although that seems to set the AUMI I'm not sure its doing anything about registering itself correctly as a priority app. The docs seem really sparse on this - and nothing I can find on StackOverflow. Anyone out there know anything about how to set a app to be available as a priority app for focus assist?

NB: this looks to be the most relevant MS docs - but still not 100% this is really everything: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...appusermodelid