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Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:24 pm
by balin453
Maybe it's something that I have set up wrong but about half of the time, when I close an emulator (regardless of which one) mgalaxy is minimized to the taskbar and has to be clicked on or alt+tabbed to maximize it again.  Wouldn't be a problem but I plan on using it for a cabinet and don't want to have to pull the keyboard out all the time.

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:27 pm
by mgalaxy
When you say "half of the time" do you mean that for the SAME emulator, one time mGalaxy will get the focus back, one time it will not!?

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 3:35 pm
by balin453
Yeah, it seems random.  It's most common with mame but does it with other emulators as well.

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 5:27 pm
by Aeliss
Have you some other application working in background ? (For joypad for exemple)

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 12:14 am
by balin453
Yes, I have JoytoKey running in the background.

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 11:19 am
by Aeliss
I have it too, I don't think the problem come from it.

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:48 pm
by balin453
Been playing with this some more, seems like it happens most with fceux.  I have it configured to close with the escape key ran through joytokey.

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 6:38 am
by mdog
I have exactly this same problem.  I only use MAME as an emulator.  When I escape to exit out of a game, mGalaxy is often minimized and I have to open it back up.  Any way to force it to stay maximized in the backround?

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:21 am
by mgalaxy
[quote="mdog"]
I have exactly this same problem.  I only use MAME as an emulator.  When I escape to exit out of a game, mGalaxy is often minimized and I have to open it back up.  Any way to force it to stay maximized in the backround?
[/quote]Having some application running in the background too...or just mG and Mame?

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 1:28 pm
by mdog
[quote="mgalaxy"]
[quote="mdog"]
I have exactly this same problem.  I only use MAME as an emulator.  When I escape to exit out of a game, mGalaxy is often minimized and I have to open it back up.  Any way to force it to stay maximized in the backround?
[/quote]Having some application running in the background too...or just mG and Mame?
[/quote]

Nothing else running in the background.  I'd say when I exit a game, mGalaxy is minimized more often than not.

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 9:51 pm
by mgalaxy
Working on it...should be submitting you a beta to test in a day or two!

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:13 am
by mdog
Ok, thanks.  More info for you: mine is a desktop PC running windows 10.

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 4:44 pm
by Aeliss
Just by curiosity @mGalaxy, what was the problem ?

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:48 am
by mgalaxy
[quote="Aeliss"]
Just by curiosity @mGalaxy, what was the problem ?
[/quote]
Just added an additional 'force maximize' layer

Re: Mgalaxy minimized when closing emulator.

Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2019 6:50 am
by mgalaxy
Here is a beta to download and test. This is a portable one (so, don't put it in 'ProgramFiles'), you can just extract it...and run it!
Of course, please report here, thanks!

http://mgalaxy.com/downloads/mGalaxy_Be ... ete%5D.zip