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Pulover / PuloversMacroCreator

Automation Utility - Recorder & Script Generator
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Program Auto-minimizes and I do not want it to, but cannot find the ability to turn it off #182

Open Timpin2001 opened 3 years ago

Timpin2001 commented 3 years ago

Every time I hit Play, the window minimizes. I'm not talking about the "Minimize to Tray" issue, I'm just talking about it generally minimizing every time I try to play a macro. I really wish it wouldn't do that but I tried for the life of me to find some setting that would let me turn that off and I just don't know what I'm supposed to do, I tried looking it up but I'm just absolutely stuck. Is there even a setting to turn this off? It's really bothering me and I just can't seem to find a solution. I appreciate your help, and I think if it can't be fixed I might just give up entirely on this for now, it's just been an exhausting week and I'm strung out at this point.

Thanks, ~Timpin2001

TirOFlanc commented 3 years ago

Hi,

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Indeed, the above buttons reduce the window, but you can use the controls toolbar below.

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Hoping this will help you TOF.

Pulover commented 3 years ago

It doesn't need to be fixed, but you can set the Keep hotkeys activated option to make them work without minimizing the window. Playback might stop if the window is on the foreground though.

Timpin2001 commented 3 years ago

That's really odd. I tried doing what was suggested, but it still keeps minimizing. I'm aware that I can use the toolbar, but I actually want to be accessing the macro window itself. I would like a way to not have to pull the window back every time I want to test every little change I'm making. The fact that it minimizes is the problem here. I would like to do things like see the macro screen when it's running. For context, I have multiple monitors, which is part of why I'm not going to be having issues with having the macro stay where it is.

Additionally (and this problem only just started happening) it's now disabling the use of my Escape key. I no longer can hit Escape as long as the macro window is open on my computer, such that I have to close the macro window in order to hit the Escape key. I don't know if this is a bug, but if it helps, I don't have any hotkeys active.

Timpin2001 commented 3 years ago

A slight amendment to my prior statement: I have realized what was occurring with my Escape key. I am relatively new to coding, and so I was unaware that it is normal for coding software to take your hotkeys and disable them from functioning as anything other than a hotkey while the program is on your computer. As such, I have then gone and turned my "Stop" hotkey into a key on my keyboard that I never use (the NumEnter key), and while it still disables the hotkey, it is now just disabling a hotkey that I never use for any other purpose. Unfortunately, however, I have now arrived at a new issue: I use the same hotkey as my "Stop" hotkey (NumEnter) for all of my macros, and due to the disabling of hotkeys that the program performs, an issue has arisen when I open up multiple instances on my computer (to make swapping between macros a bit easier). This issue is that each individual window will disable the hotkey for every other window open on my computer. This, unfortunately, results in my hotkey being disabled for every macro window that is opened on my computer, which means that unless I can access the individual macro windows and shut them down manually (often while a macro that is designed to hijack my mouse is running), I become physically unable to shut down my macros with any measure short of powering off my computer. All of this originates from having multiple instances open (not even having each macro running) on my computer at once.