2012-04-08, 18:29
Recently I began to notice XBMC getting kicked out of full screen mode (gets minimized to the taskbar) when it was set to use true full screen, rather than full screen window. I am aware that this is due to a Windows issue with focus-stealing applications (thanks for "fixing" that in Windows 7, Microsoft ).
I did some testing with the WinFocusMon utility and Process Monitor, hoping to discover which application was stealing focus. Unfortunately, WinFocusMon reported it to have been caused by XBMC itself and the PID in Process Monitor supported that.
Is this a red herring? I see that Google Updater ran around 15-20 seconds before losing focus, but then again, it appears to run quite often without stealing focus, plus its activity stopped 10 seconds or so before. There was nothing else in Process Monitor other than XBMC itself.
Please forgive my ignorance, but are XBMC skins able to launch a separate window in any way?
I did some testing with the WinFocusMon utility and Process Monitor, hoping to discover which application was stealing focus. Unfortunately, WinFocusMon reported it to have been caused by XBMC itself and the PID in Process Monitor supported that.
Is this a red herring? I see that Google Updater ran around 15-20 seconds before losing focus, but then again, it appears to run quite often without stealing focus, plus its activity stopped 10 seconds or so before. There was nothing else in Process Monitor other than XBMC itself.
Please forgive my ignorance, but are XBMC skins able to launch a separate window in any way?