Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately the suggested work around does not seem to work for me. No matter how many times I press Enter or any other key, the cursor stays focussed in the textbox.
I will use the buttons for 'Stop', 'Repeat' and 'Begin" instead of pressing escape and enter, to prevent the searchbox from receiving the focus.
One of the good things about the size of the new tradeskill window, is that it is too large to walk around with, so i tend to close it before going to another crafting station. With the default crafting window, I often end up entering endless strings of wwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssdd in the seach textbox when i start moving around
kind regards,
Richard