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Plus! and Counter-Strike by .blade// on 11-08-2004 at 04:02 PM
While playing Counter-Strike, MSN signed in and minimized the game. When I maximized it again, desktop contacts appeared over top of CS but flashing in and out. Screenshot below.
MSN 7.0.332
MsgPlus! 3.40 BETA
Windows XP SP2
Counter-Strike 1.6 (though I think this has to do with full screen APS, not just CS).
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RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by Concord Dawn on 11-08-2004 at 04:17 PM
Turn off always on top? :/ It's not really a bug.
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by .blade// on 11-08-2004 at 04:18 PM
quote:It doesn't usually go on top of gaCounter-Strike though....it's just bcz it signed in WHILE I was playing...
Originally posted by Chaotic_Shield
Turn off always on top? :/ It's not really a bug.
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by Concord Dawn on 11-08-2004 at 04:21 PM
Yes, that happens. It's because the contacts go on top of the "Always on Top" stack because they were activated after. Something like that. There isn't a fix for this, it's just dodgy Windows.
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by .blade// on 11-08-2004 at 04:32 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Chaotic_Shield
Yes, that happens. It's because the contacts go on top of the "Always on Top" stack because they were activated after. Something like that. There isn't a fix for this, it's just dodgy Windows.
Dude, there IS a fix for it, I know myself from previous coding experiences. You just set it up to detect full-screen applications
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by CookieRevised on 11-08-2004 at 05:00 PM
quote:It is far from as easy as that.... eg: What happens when I have Excel in full screen and yet want my contacts to appear on top? (which works perfectly atm btw)
Originally posted by blade
Dude, there IS a fix for it, I know myself from previous coding experiences. You just set it up to detect full-screen applications
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by Patchou on 11-08-2004 at 07:22 PM
quote:Precisely, it's not that simple. If you have a coding suggestion though (to detect Full Screen DirectX only for example), I would be glad to consider it.
It is far from as easy as that.... eg: What happens when I have Excel in full screen and yet want my contacts to appear on top?
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by .blade// on 11-08-2004 at 07:27 PM
Well my coding skills aren't that advanced, so I couldn't tell you 
but how about a feature that lets you make a list of .exe's, and when one of them is launched, MsgPlus goes into Boss Protection mode.
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by Concord Dawn on 11-08-2004 at 08:01 PM
Now there's a feature that would be useful.
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by Millenium_edition on 11-08-2004 at 08:11 PM
quote:Might be a wild guess, but can't you get the active window and the screen size, then compare both
Originally posted by Patchou
Precisely, it's not that simple. If you have a coding suggestion though (to detect Full Screen DirectX only for example), I would be glad to consider it.
? Then detect somekind of subwindow, which would be directX only or a window class or something...
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by .Roy on 11-08-2004 at 09:10 PM
Blade!!! I can really really really use that feature! It sounds genius i can use it almost all the time.. I always forget to leave my messenger closed when i go play something -_-! PATCHOU please put blades feature into place -_- I think it would work out neatly
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by saralk on 11-08-2004 at 09:57 PM
it seems like a really specialist feature tbh, its like me saying "i have this thing that whenever i sign into msn, this one person always says this really funny joke to me, and i alyways print it out, so please can you make something that automatically prints out chat logs after x minutes of conversations being open"
this is obviously a stupid feature, as it is too specialist and something that can be done really easily. Likewise your feature is pretty sepcialist and a solution is already there, and its very easy.
RE: Plus! and Counter-Strike by Concord Dawn on 11-09-2004 at 01:28 AM
It's actually not too specialist. Let's say you run VB.NET studio. That is a big program, and you don't really want any distractions while programming. So just tell Plus!, when vbnetstudio.exe (or whatever) opens, go into Boss Protection mode. Another cool feature would be on shut down, automatically sign out Messenger. But, I'm not holding my breath.