Zugg Software :: View topic - [v2.18] Alt-Tab acting differently between XP and Vista <updated>

Wanderer Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 62

On my vista machine, i can alt tab between my different cmud windows and my other applications, and continue typing right off the bat.

on my xp machine if I alt tab away, and back to cmud, I cannot type straight to my command line. I have to either click on the cmud screen or hit alt twice.

Is there a way to make the XP machine act like the Vista one?

it is highly desirable.

Thanks!

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:57 pm

I'll look into it, but I'm not sure. CMUD already responds to the "ApplicationActivate" event and gives focus to the current command line, so all I can think of is that Alt-Tab isn't sending the proper messages on XP. But I'm not sure I have seen that myself, so I'll have to see if I can reproduce it. In Vista, the Alt-Tab stuff is completely rewritten (to use the fancy Aero screen-flip stuff), so I'm not too surprised that it works a bit differently.

Wanderer Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 62

thank you.

Wanderer Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 62

Ok, I have a small update... and perhaps some ideas, tho as my wiz on my favorite mud likes to say, it is more of a 'cludge' than a fix :p.

suddenly my alt-tab experience in zmud has gotten worse (on windows xp) (on vista it is still perfectly fine, alt tab out, alt tab in, type type type, good.)...

Before, in WinXP, i could alt tab out alt tab in (hit alt twice) and type. now I cannot.

I have found that if I alt tab out alt tab in and hit ctrl-N it will give the window the cursor back.

I have not yet tested with multiple session windows open yet, as I play with one at a time (with many cmud instances open sometimes).

Wondering if there is a way to automatically force XP-cmud client to ctrl-n when it comes back from an alt-tab ?... or perhaps there is another ctrl-xxx shortcut that tries to reclaim (last windows) focus.

dunno, just know this is really annoying.

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:04 pm

You could probably do it with AutoHotKey - google it, it's a general macro-creation program.

Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:37 pm

I've been experiencing the same problems in XP - alt-tab does not always send my cursor to my command line, even if that's the last place it left off. I start typing, and realize it's not on the command line. It's not a consistent problem, but it's consistent enough to irritate me. *shrug*

Charneus

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:59 am

Hmmm... interesting - if you create a session icon on your desktop, then alt+tab back and forth, the cursor is NEVER placed at the command line.

Charneus

Wanderer Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 62

I think this is happening to me Charneus, tho not because of session icon.

on XP I have never (not even from the beginning, been placed onto the command line after alt-tabbing back.. I always am still interacting with whatever window is behind cmud...

it is pretty bad because i start typing madly away and end up sending text I don't want to to some IM contact or in email to someone i did not intend.