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Shlink

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:32 pm

Hotkey to bring all windows into the foreground

I'd like an alternative to pressing CTRL + ALT + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 when I'm trying to bring all my windows into the foreground.
I have a feeling there is a way to do this but I can not find it in the keybindings or from searching this forum.

I use small windows tiled on my second monitor and do not use swapping.
I'll often tab to a browser or watch netflix, and want to be able to easily bring all the game windows back to the front with a single hotkey.
Does anyone now if there is a way to set that?

Thanks!
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Valerian

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:09 pm

Re: Hotkey to bring all windows into the foreground

Well, first off, you can change the hotkeys to something else I suppose, by changing them in your Character Set Slot Options.

You can also set up a mapped key to rapidly focus them all, or there may be other options available depending on your desired configuration. Please feel free to share your configuration if you would like more help!
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Shlink

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2015 3:29 pm

Re: Hotkey to bring all windows into the foreground

Valerian wrote:You can also set up a mapped key to rapidly focus them all, or there may be other options available depending on your desired configuration.


A key to rapidly focus them all would be just fine. I can't figure out how to set a key bind to do multiple actions like that.
That would also be useful for other scenarios like buffing multiple characters, where in-game macros don't quite cut it.

Here is my current configuration in case it is necessary http://pastebin.com/t5ZiQHNw
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bob

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2015 3:59 pm

Re: Hotkey to bring all windows into the foreground

The only Global hotkeys you can configure are the ones on the Character Set Slot options. The hotkeys you set for ISBoxer mapped keys will only work when you have a game window as the foreground Window.
So if you happen to have a browser window as the foreground, then pressing your hotkey to bring all game windows to the front wont work. You need to cycle through the Global Hotkeys you can set per slot.

If you happen to have a game window on the foreground, you might be able to use several Window Focus Actions, and send them to each slot. YMMV.
If you want a specific slot to have focus at the end, (maybe a main slot), then you could set all the slots on Step 1, and in Step 2, have your preferred slot, then setup the mapped key to execute on "pressed OR released", then step 1 should focus them all (bringing them to the foreground) and step 2 will bring your preferred slot back to the current foreground window. You could try the Window State Action too.

This all assumes that you cant be using the Window Layout feature, "Always On Top, if a game window is active".


edit: must be tired. Val pretty much said all that anyway...
Last edited by bob on Fri Oct 30, 2015 4:00 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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firescue17

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2015 4:00 pm

Re: Hotkey to bring all windows into the foreground

Another option is to set the Window Layout Region's "Always On Top Mode" to "On, if a game window is foreground."

awww. Bob ganked me.
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Shlink

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Post Fri Oct 30, 2015 5:23 pm

Re: Hotkey to bring all windows into the foreground

Thank you for the responses guys.

Having the Windows On Top Always, or while other game windows are active isn't an option because I play one window while the others are behind a browser or video. But thank you for that suggestion.

I was having trouble figuring out how to set up Window Actions, but found where I can add them finally :p
Window State Actions don't seem to work for me at all.
Window Focus Actions are close but can't get them to do exactly what I want.
If I set a single slot the hotkey works fine.
With multiple Window Focus Actions under the same step, it only focues the last window (or the last two windows if I execute on pressed OR released)
When I put each slot on it's own step, i need to press the hotkey multiple times to get the windows to focus. (I even need to let go of the modifiers ctrl + alt between each press if i'm using any)

I was able to create a macro on my razor keyboard that presses each windows focus key. That will certainly do the trick, but it would have been nice to figure out how to set it correctly within ISBoxer.

Thanks again for everyone's help!

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