2011-08-02, 00:06
Mckron Wrote:"Using win+" buttons. Thanks Bodhi!
*ugh* I should have thought of that myself. And the sad thing is I put the "alt-tab" button right next to my "win+" launch button. Heh. That'll teach me to try and think! I knew that the there was a program that was pulling aggro...erm...I mean focus from XBMC, I just hadn't bothered to check what (was Windows updates, go figure). Do you know why XBMC drops focus? It's the only program that I've seen drop, from something simple like a system notification, while running. Heck, even the very crappy HDFrames (Dang! that's an ugly program!) that came with my case doesn't drop.
Will dig deeper.
Yeah, Windows Update does that every time with XBMC the reason is XBMC is not sharing focus when we run it in true full screen (If you change it to run full screen window, then it will be OK. But that's ugly). Windows update displays notification message so it will grab the focus. One way to avoid it is to turn off notification and make it automatic (but I prefer to set it to download only, and then manually run Windows Update).
My XBMC activity is like this:
Start: Power up MCE SE, Power up MCE Keyboard, power up other devices, Win+3
Stop: Win+3, ... power down devices (this sequence is set by Harmony).
So XBMC is always minimized when exiting activity. During start activity, with the delay of 15 seconds (because of my Aquos TV requirement), XBMC is almost always maximized. Even with Windows Update notification. Once in while (it's rare), I have to use the LCD button to maximize it.