Window swap when I close a separate program.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:51 am
I have my 1680 x 1050 screen set up so that one instance of EQ2 takes up the left 2/3rds or so of the screen, and the second instance runs in a small window in the upper right. I have them set to swap when I select one of them with the mouse (or a swap hotkey). Apparently Microsoft wants to do my thinking for me, and selects the non-current instance whenever I close or even minimize another program (browser, usually, but even the ISBoxer Toolkit will do it). ISBoxer sees the selection and swaps the windows, and I have to swap them back.
Is there any way to get around this? Its a minor annoyance, but a grating one. I assist others with heroic quests by 2-boxing my healer and monk, and they're usually not too... 'knowledgeable' about the quests they're on (duh, what's eq2i?). Anyway, being the good samaritan, I'm always looking stuff up for my guildies and others, and the swapping thing gets a bit much after a full day of questing.
It doesn't matter which instance is my current 'main' or where I click in the other program, so its not a 'click-thru' issue. There needs to be only one other window open. Multiple open windows (aside from the games) somehow don't do it.. when the last one is closed/minimized, the EQ2 instances stay the same. Even a small window in the blank area under the small side slot (e.g. Ventrilo) will cause the swap - the extraneous windows don't have to overlap any of the game slot areas.
Yet Another Reason to Hate MS Programmers...
Is there any way to get around this? Its a minor annoyance, but a grating one. I assist others with heroic quests by 2-boxing my healer and monk, and they're usually not too... 'knowledgeable' about the quests they're on (duh, what's eq2i?). Anyway, being the good samaritan, I'm always looking stuff up for my guildies and others, and the swapping thing gets a bit much after a full day of questing.
It doesn't matter which instance is my current 'main' or where I click in the other program, so its not a 'click-thru' issue. There needs to be only one other window open. Multiple open windows (aside from the games) somehow don't do it.. when the last one is closed/minimized, the EQ2 instances stay the same. Even a small window in the blank area under the small side slot (e.g. Ventrilo) will cause the swap - the extraneous windows don't have to overlap any of the game slot areas.
Yet Another Reason to Hate MS Programmers...