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New Topic Of Focus....My MaLa Loss Of Focus....FIXED by DaOld Man

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DaOld Man:
I just tested it and it didnt work I think it was because of the ahk name, maybe the _ or - is it?
I changed the name to mouseclick.exe, deleted the first action in control choose and added a new one entering the mouseclick.exe in the action line. It worked then.
So if it dont work for you, try renaming sim_mouse-click.exe to mouseclick.exe, then make sure the action in control choose points to the new name.

You can manually edit the actions list in mala/plugins/ctrlchse/actions.txt, but it's probably easier to do it from within control choose setup.
There is also a logs folder in there where you can view the last 5 or so runs of control choose. May be handy for trouble shooting.
Control Choose was never completely finished, for there didnt seem to be a whole lot of interest in it. But I think it is functional. If you come across any bugs I'd appreciate if you drop me a note or post it on here.
If there is enough interest from the community I can try to finish it up completely.

mike boss:
Just wanted to provide my update.
So of course yesterday when I turned on the DK JR cabinet (Windows XP/Mala/MAME) .... the one giving me issues!
The focus issue wasn't a problem. The PC worked and I did not have to do a mouse click.
I wonder if the issue is sometimes brought on by extended periods of non use for the PC ?
I recently bought some switches from Costco that people use for X-Mass lights.
I use these so that I can turn on my machines via the remote. I love em !
Anyway since I changed the BIOS to boot from power loss it always activates windows Active Desktop.
Even though I disable it, it still comes on.

Anyway.......... the focus issue wasn't a problem upon initial boot yesterday. However I still set everything up as provided by DaOld Man (thanks again). I renamed the script to mouseclick.exe, and followed all the instructions as provided by DaOld Man. Did a couple of on/off and test and all was fine. This morning I booted up the PC and all was fine and I'll test again at various points over the weekend. I'll also test periodically in the next week-ish....and I'll provide the updates here.

I want to thank you again DaOld Man, your help was very much appreciated. I hope this has solved my problem.

JDFan:

--- Quote from: mike boss on February 24, 2018, 09:17:13 am ---I wonder if the issue is sometimes brought on by extended periods of non use for the PC ?

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More likely a windows program running in the background -- whihc just happens to be more likely when the system has been off for awhile ( ie. a service like Defrag, Update, Scan, etc. - that is set to run weekly or monthly at a certain time will run whenever it gets a chance afterwards - so if the machine has been off for awhile it is more likely to have events that are waiting to get processed.)

DaOld Man:
Glad I could help Mike.
But what JD said could be the real problem. When you get time you may want to do some experimenting.
Maybe leave the PC off for a few days and see what happens.
You can disable control choose temporarily by just renaming the extension in the mala/plugins folder.
Example, change controlchoose.mplugin to controlchoose.xxmplugin. (extension can be anything as long as it's not mplugin, I like leaving the name in as much as possible to make it easier to change back later.)
Mala should not recognize the xxmplugin extension and not run control choose.
You can change the extension back for testing or if you decide you want to use it permanently.
Good luck, and happy gaming!

mike boss:
I've done a few different MALA/MAME combo setup's in the past. Never had the issue that I've had with focus before.
On the PC that gives me issues I even have the MaLa Focus Logger Plugin installed, and the problem continued.
IE the desire to add a second PC (a laptop actually) into the cabinet.
I will continue to test the PC and different intervals, 2 days, 5 days, a week, etc and report the findings.
I'd be happy to have this problem solved, then all that would remain on my DK JR is to update the layout giving it a fresh look!

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