Shoutbox

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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Turn off always on top? :/ It's not really a bug.

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Originally posted by Chaotic_Shield
Turn off always on top? :/ It's not really a bug.

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It doesn't usually go on top of gaCounter-Strike though....it's just bcz it signed in WHILE I was playing...

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.

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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.

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Dude, there IS a fix for it, I know myself from previous coding experiences. You just set it up to detect full-screen applications

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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

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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)

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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?

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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.

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.

Now there's a feature that would be useful.

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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.

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Might be a wild guess, but can't you get the active window and the screen size, then compare both ? Then detect somekind of subwindow, which would be directX only or a window class or something...