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Alt Tab in Windows makes game go bye-bye

by UCF_0017 · in Torque Game Engine · 11/09/2006 (10:30 am) · 5 replies

When I run in full screen mode, and press alt-tab using Windows XP, my torque game stays running, but I can't alt-tab back to it nor can I see it on the program bar to click back to it. Is there any way to resolve this?


Is this a torque bug?


yeah when i'm full screen in my torque game and I press alt+tab, I have no way to get back to my torque game.. :(


I have no listing in my program switch window for the game which is still running, nor do I have a access to it on my program bar...
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Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#1
11/09/2006 (10:33 am)
Check your taskmanager and see if the process is still running. If it is, then it's a bug.

I was under the impression this one was ironed out, though.

Torque Owner UCF_0017
#2
11/09/2006 (11:41 am)
Yeah it is still there in the task manager....

Do you know where they resolved this bug? Maybe we have an older version of 1.4

I'm using 1.4.2 btw

Associate Kevin Ryan
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#3
11/09/2006 (5:45 pm)
A fix for this was posted on the forums here earlier in the year If I'm remembering correctly in OpenGLDevice::shutdown() in the file winOGLVideo.cc -- you need to remove the six lines after the comment //Destroy the Window.

Torque Owner Robert Seeman
#4
11/10/2006 (9:25 am)
Just FYI - I tested 1.5 and it doesn't seem to have this problem.

Torque Owner Aaron E
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#5
11/10/2006 (9:57 am)
Latest 1.4.2 doesn't have the problem either.