SynthMaker

Mouse over window focus issue

Archive · 2009 7 old posts

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ccpurno ·

Hi,

I am not sure if this is a bug, but as soon as there is a "mouse over" detection going on, a Synthmaker VSTi window can not get on top anymore of other VSTs by clicking on its user interface.

You need to click the titlebar that is part of the host. But some hosts have very thin titlebars, so that is not really workable.. also users expect that the window will get into focus when clicking anywhere on it.

Did anyone notice this too and could there be a workaround for this? (didn't find anything after looking on the forum a long time)

Attached is the example synth with a simple mouse-over inserted.

CC

sunsynth ·

Confirmed: In compiled Standalones i also see this behaviour !

X-Mouse style feature dosn't work on the GUI-field only as described at the Titlebar...

Intel Q35 and nVidia 9600 GT /XP SP2 & Win7

ccpurno ·

Synthmaker crew; any idea for a workaround for this?

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malc ·

Strange. Sometimes it takes a few clicks to activate, sometimes it just takes one. I will need to investigate further.

sunsynth ·

Hi malc,

btw can you also have a look at the Exe-Zoom eats up 1st Mouseclick!

ccpurno ·

Ok, good to hear you can reproduce, Malc.

Tested a bit longer in Orion 7.62 on Windows 7 64 bit (my main OS) and Windows XP 32 SP3 with the same results:

- When clicking any amount of times in the user interface (even turning knobs!) the window does not jump to front. - But when opening a drop down menu and releasing it, the window jumps to front position instantly (above previously overlapping VSTi windows)

By the way: I tested this with 2 instances of attached VST, compiled on Windows 7 64 in Synthmaker 1.1.4 But issue is also present in VSTi compiled with Synthmaker 1.1.2 (or 1.1.2 Example synth for that matter)

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infuzion ·

ccpurno wrote: - When clicking any amount of times in the user interface (even turning knobs!) the window does not jump to front. - But when opening a drop down menu and releasing it, the window jumps to front position instantly (above previously overlapping VSTi windows)

I can see sometimes NOT jumping to front can be an advantage (like working with several large windows), but the jumping/not-jumping should be always consistent for all GUI elements.

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