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New Topic Of Focus....My MaLa Loss Of Focus....FIXED by DaOld Man
mike boss:
Turned on the cabinet today.....the last time would have been April 15th. So almost 1 month of no use. The loss of focus issue was a non issue. As stated before I think we can call this officially fixed.
Again I say thanks for all the help.
Jakobud:
So was upgrading to Mala 1.82 the solution or what?
DaOld Man:
I think he solved it by having control choose run an AHK script to do a mouse click when Mala starts up.
pmc:
Hi all. I wanted to try Control Choose too because I suspect it will simply and easily fix my problem as well. I'm running Mala 1.71 for some reason. Haven't tried to upgrade (don't really want to risk having to reconfigure anything... being lazy really). I already have AHK installed and use it for launching and configuring Windows games. Launching Mala "minimized" instead of "hidden" fixed the focus issue for me for the last couple of years, but I'm tired of seeing WindowsXP title-bars on the screen during game launch (an odd side-effect). If I go back to "hidden", Mala can lose focus after returning from a game (or initial run) and I have to grab a mouse.
Anyway, in the 3 files attached above, mouseclick.zip contains the ahk file instead of an .exe. mouseclick_AHK.zip contains mouseclick_AHK.ahk which is the same ahk file. Seeing that AHK generates the mouseclick directly (MouseClick, left, 55, 233), I assume the .exe is just the compiled script. So I compiled the script and call it from Control Choose as a Mala Start Event.
So far it seems to work for returning from a game, but on initial launch Mala does not have focus. When I click the "test" button, I see the mouse pointer relocate so it appears to be working. Should I try to impose a delay after launch (Sleep, DelayInMilliseconds)? Or am I doing something else wrong?
I could go to 1.74(5) which has force-focus code in it... but this fix should work adequately, no?
Thanks guys...
mike boss:
I fired up my cabinet for the first time in a while (probably since I last updated the thread).
No issue ! I can think now can say DEFINITIVELY that the issue is fixed!
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