Modal window not overriding keyboard input?

[smallreflection]

This may be the normal functionality for such modals, but I've noticed if I select a bit of text, open the Character palette to edit, say, the tracking, and go to enter a percentage on the keyboard, the initial action taken is the text in my selection is actually deleted and it begins typing there. Perhaps it's because I didn't click in the modal input box just right, but it seems that if a modal is open, it should be deactivating input in the document itself.

[Dave Harris]

The Character panel itself isn't modal. You would need to click in the tracking edit box specifically.