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Title: Loss of Focus
Post by: mike boss on November 14, 2015, 05:13:53 pm

Fired up my old DK JR cabinet and remembered I'm always suffering from loss of focus on this machine.
I thought if I changed the setting pertaining to game loading, from hidden to minimized, or vice versa it fixed the issue.
Or at least I thought I read that. Anyway.... it did not do the trick !

Anyone else have this issue, how did you fix it ?

I'm going to try the latest beta exe I think that might have also fixed it (off memory) , but again I'm not sure.

Title: Re: Loss of Focus
Post by: Jollywest on November 15, 2015, 02:20:14 am

I also get a focus issue when mala regains focus after about 5 minutes when playing a game.
I tried the focus logger plugin on the mala website, which didn't work for me but it might for you though.
I also tried both the beta and non-beta versions without any success.

Title: Re: Loss of Focus
Post by: mike boss on November 15, 2015, 04:08:17 pm

I'm going to see if I'm using the latest EXE.
If not, I'll swap that first and try my luck.
I'll post the results.

Title: Re: Loss of Focus
Post by: empardopo on December 06, 2015, 06:37:14 am

Last option you can use AllInOneFYC. You assign a button like left mouse button using AllInOneFYC and say goodbye your problem.

Title: Re: Loss of Focus
Post by: Zipper on December 06, 2015, 01:32:39 pm

Someone said that setting multithreading = 0 in the mame ini stopped the focus issue. Might be worth a try!

Title: Re: Loss of Focus
Post by: mike boss on December 14, 2015, 09:08:12 am

I swapped the EXE file and left the machine off for a week or so.
Fired it up and had no loss of focus.
So I think I've solved it.

Happy ! It was a real pain.

Title: Re: Loss of Focus
Post by: mike boss on January 08, 2016, 09:24:31 am

I'm unsure if my issue is in part due to not playing the cabinet often and something internally causing the problem.
Battery problem ? I have no clue.

Either way the other day I changed my state (for game loads) to MINIMIZED vs HIDDEN (prior). I upgraded to the latest EXE, and I disabled my background music.

Seems to be OK for now.