TabBar: Fixed ImGuiTabItemFlags_SetSelected being ignored if the tab is not visible (with scrolling policy enabled) or if is currently appearing.

docs/CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ Other Changes:
 - TabBar: Fixed a crash when using BeginTabBar() recursively (didn't affect docking). (#2371)
 - TabBar: Added extra mis-usage error recovery. Past the assert, common mis-usage don't lead to
   hard crashes any more, facilitating integration with scripting languages. (#1651)
+- TabBar: Fixed ImGuiTabItemFlags_SetSelected being ignored if the tab is not visible (with
+  scrolling policy enabled) or if is currently appearing.
 - Text: Fixed large Text/TextUnformatted call not declaring its size when starting below the
   lower point of the current clipping rectangle. Somehow this bug has been there since v1.0!
   It was hardly noticeable but would affect the scrolling range, which in turn would affect

imgui_widgets.cpp

@@ -6592,6 +6592,8 @@ bool    ImGui::TabItemEx(ImGuiTabBar* tab_bar, const char* label, bool* p_open,
     if (tab_appearing && (tab_bar->Flags & ImGuiTabBarFlags_AutoSelectNewTabs) && tab_bar->NextSelectedTabId == 0)
         if (!tab_bar_appearing || tab_bar->SelectedTabId == 0)
             tab_bar->NextSelectedTabId = id;  // New tabs gets activated
+    if ((flags & ImGuiTabItemFlags_SetSelected) && (tab_bar->SelectedTabId != id)) // SetSelected can only be passed on explicit tab bar
+        tab_bar->NextSelectedTabId = id;
 
     // Lock visibility
     bool tab_contents_visible = (tab_bar->VisibleTabId == id);
@@ -6643,9 +6645,9 @@ bool    ImGui::TabItemEx(ImGuiTabBar* tab_bar, const char* label, bool* p_open,
         button_flags |= ImGuiButtonFlags_PressedOnDragDropHold;
     bool hovered, held;
     bool pressed = ButtonBehavior(bb, id, &hovered, &held, button_flags);
-    hovered |= (g.HoveredId == id);
-    if (pressed || ((flags & ImGuiTabItemFlags_SetSelected) && !tab_contents_visible)) // SetSelected can only be passed on explicit tab bar
+    if (pressed)
         tab_bar->NextSelectedTabId = id;
+    hovered |= (g.HoveredId == id);
 
     // Allow the close button to overlap unless we are dragging (in which case we don't want any overlapping tabs to be hovered)
     if (!held)