"Maintain focus ..." option has no effect in Spyder4

Problem Description

What steps reproduce the problem?

1. Open Tools > Preferences > Editor > Run Code and disable the “Maintain focus in the Editor after running cells or selections” option.
2. Execute Run > Run cell (or Crtl + Return)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

The cell is executed in the current/dedicated console as expected. However, the focus stays in the editor and does not switch to the console. This is the same behavior as when the “Maintain focus …” option is enabled, i.e., disabling the option has no apparent effect. This seems to be a Spyder4 specific issue: In previous versions (Spyder3), the focus would switch to the console if the “Maintain focus …” option was disabled.

Versions

• Spyder version: 4.0.1
• Python version: 3.6.7
• Qt version: 5.12.5
• PyQt version: 5.12.3
• Operating System name/version: Windows 10

Also happens on an installation with Spyder 4.0.0, Windows 7 and Python 3.7.

Dependencies

atomicwrites >=1.2.0         :  1.3.0 (OK)
chardet >=2.0.0              :  3.0.4 (OK)
cloudpickle >=0.5.0          :  1.2.2 (OK)
diff_match_patch >=20181111  :  20181111 (OK)
intervaltree                 :  None (OK)
IPython >=4.0                :  7.12.0 (OK)
jedi =0.14.1                 :  0.14.1 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0              :  5.6.1 (OK)
numpydoc >=0.6.0             :  0.9.2 (OK)
pexpect >=4.4.0              :  4.8.0 (OK)
pickleshare >=0.4            :  0.7.5 (OK)
psutil >=0.3                 :  5.6.7 (OK)
pygments >=2.0               :  2.5.2 (OK)
pylint >=0.25                :  2.4.4 (OK)
pyls >=0.31.2;<0.32.0        :  0.31.7 (OK)
zmq >=17                     :  18.1.1 (OK)
qdarkstyle >=2.7             :  2.8 (OK)
qtawesome >=0.5.7            :  0.6.1 (OK)
qtconsole >=4.6.0            :  4.6.0 (OK)
qtpy >=1.5.0                 :  1.9.0 (OK)
rtree >=0.8.3                :  0.9.3 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6               :  2.3.1 (OK)
spyder_kernels >=1.8.1;<2.0.0:  1.8.1 (OK)
watchdog                     :  None (OK)
cython >=0.21                :  None (NOK)
matplotlib >=2.0.0           :  3.1.2 (OK)
numpy >=1.7                  :  1.18.1 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1              :  1.0.1 (OK)
scipy >=0.17.0               :  1.3.2 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3                :  None (NOK)

[dalthviz]

Hi @pavolgaj did you try the changes in the PR metioned by @ccordoba12 (https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/16977) ? I checked them and seems like the problem is solved with those changes (the focus in the Editor stays depending on the Maintain focus ... option when running code with the cell/selection functionality). They will be available with Spyder 5.2.1 (our next release to be done)

[ccordoba12]

There are previous changes required to make that option work as expected. Please wait until 5.2.1 is released and if the option is not working for you, then open a new issue.