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Pointer mode ending on ppInk get focus after application close #321

Open kbh81 opened 1 week ago

kbh81 commented 1 week ago

I have found what I believe is an issue with the window management / pointer mode:

In brief: ppInk returns to drawing mode even when not wanted.

Occurs when: When I start pointer mode in ppInk, then change to an application to work in that, but then close that application. Then MSWindows will give ppInk the focus as it is the next in the window stack. ppInk then always immediately goes back in drawing mode, even if want to stay in Pointer mode (in order to click on a different background window after closing the first). This even happens if Hide_In_AltTab=True, independant of AltTab_Pointer, I have tried a ton of different ini value combinations in ppInk but can not get this problem to go away.

Desired behavior: Behavior (potentially via new ini flag) that will strictly ONLY change between pointer and drawing mode via the global Ctrl+Alt+G hotkey. Closing windows, changing focus, Alt+Tab should all not matter.

Thank you for your consideration.

pubpub-zz commented 1 week ago

can you try in the options to set them up as follow: image

and tell me if this is good or not ?

kbh81 commented 1 week ago

Thank you for that comment, I tried the combinations, but it did not resolve the issue. Actually I found a separate issue where I can't even get the Options Dialog to open when the first of the above is disabled and second is enabled, but I am not worried about that. The main problem remains, I am in pointer mode (for example just open a notepad.exe, draw in it, then pointer mode) and when closing that window, with Window reasssigning focus to ppInk the pointer mode is being ended and switched to drawing mode even though I don't want that.

pubpub-zz commented 1 week ago

Things look good in here: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4ea71a90-9c8f-4619-bed6-fb674b1f1c28

kbh81 commented 1 week ago

Thank you for your time to create that demonstration, I agree the behavior I am seeing on my system is not occurring for yours. I will reinstall ppInk and make sure to test some further to see whether I can narrow down more in detail, why it is not the same for me.

kbh81 commented 1 week ago

One more question if you allow: Does the same demonstration (without need for you taking video) work as well when you fold the ppInk window before? So clicks would be having notepad window open: In the ppInk window select Pointer mode, flick on fold ppInk window, click in notepad window, close notepad window. That ends the pointer mode on my system.

pubpub-zz commented 1 week ago

I see no difference