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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0000747AI War 1 / ClassicGUIOct 28, 2010 4:44 am
Reporterzebramatt Assigned Tokeith.lamothe  
Status closedResolutionnot fixable 
Product Version3.719 
Summary0000747: Hot switching + task bar = lost in space
DescriptionWhen alt-tabbing out of AI War and then returning by selecting it from the Windows task bar, often the game scrolls way out into the deepest regions of space at whichever planet I was on.

It's altogether possible this only happens when the task bar is set to auto-hide.
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duplicate of 0002892 closedChris_McElligottPark Game screen pans to outer space on ALT+TAB 

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Lancefighter

Oct 20, 2010 3:38 am

reporter   ~0001480

Issue is probably in that the mouse cursor is on the edge of the screen when you tab out..

zebramatt

Oct 20, 2010 4:00 am

reporter   ~0001485

Last edited: Oct 20, 2010 4:01 am

Clocked it!

The issue isn't with alt-tabbing out (or in); it's with using the Windows task bar to get back into the game - at least when the task bar is set to auto-hide, anyway.

zebramatt

Oct 20, 2010 4:03 am

reporter   ~0001486

But it STILL doesn't always happen! Colour me officially miffed.

keith.lamothe

Oct 20, 2010 9:12 am

administrator   ~0001490

The game doesn't know that you've got another window on top of it, so it continues to process mouse-scrolling logic. Results are... interesting.

We seem to not be getting the mouse-down events when another window is in the way, so maybe we can move the mouse-scrolling logic under the same roof to prevent this.

keith.lamothe

Oct 20, 2010 3:40 pm

administrator   ~0001571

Sorry, I tried moving this into the other mouse-handling and it does exactly the same thing. I don't think we can fix this unless we find some way of the program being able to answer the question "does my window have focus?". We can't do that at present, so far as I've been able to tell.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
Oct 20, 2010 3:34 am zebramatt New Issue
Oct 20, 2010 3:38 am Lancefighter Note Added: 0001480
Oct 20, 2010 4:00 am zebramatt Note Added: 0001485
Oct 20, 2010 4:01 am zebramatt Note Edited: 0001485
Oct 20, 2010 4:02 am zebramatt Summary Hot switching = lost in space => Hot switching + task bar = lost in space
Oct 20, 2010 4:02 am zebramatt Description Updated
Oct 20, 2010 4:03 am zebramatt Description Updated
Oct 20, 2010 4:03 am zebramatt Note Added: 0001486
Oct 20, 2010 9:12 am keith.lamothe Note Added: 0001490
Oct 20, 2010 9:12 am keith.lamothe Assigned To => keith.lamothe
Oct 20, 2010 9:12 am keith.lamothe Status new => confirmed
Oct 20, 2010 3:40 pm keith.lamothe Note Added: 0001571
Oct 20, 2010 3:43 pm Chris_McElligottPark Status confirmed => resolved
Oct 20, 2010 3:43 pm Chris_McElligottPark Resolution open => not fixable
Oct 28, 2010 4:44 am zebramatt Status resolved => closed
Feb 24, 2011 3:50 pm Draco18s Relationship added duplicate of 0002892
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Bug - UI => GUI