Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 20:37:42 12/20/04
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On December 20, 2004 at 19:04:03, José Carlos wrote: >On December 20, 2004 at 18:46:17, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On December 20, 2004 at 13:54:17, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >> >>>I'm up to about 250 games with Arena 1.1 with no glitches save one. About every >>>5 games or so it grabs the focus. I minimize it, but after a few more games >>>it's back. This is an annoyance but seems to cause no other problem. >>> >>>Anyone else had this behavior or know if there is a setting I've got wrong which >>>could cause it? >>> >>>Thanks >>>Dan H. >> >>I am not familiar with "grabs the focus" term, what are the sypmtoms when that >>happens? > > The focus is a property of windows objects (forms, text boxes, buttons) that >means that object is selected. For example, if you click TAB in a window with >many text boxes, the focus goes to each of them with every TAB. > When he says Arena grabs the focus he means it gets to front, and is ready for >you to send keys to it. If it is minimized, it gets maximized. > I've experienced this also. When I run nunn-like matches (starting position is >not standard, but every game Arena reads the starting position from a file with >FENs), it grabs the focus every new game. > I informed Frank in the past, with many details (that's why I have not >repeated it here anymore) that this focus thing seems to be related to the >crashes I experience. > > José C. Excellent explanation. Although I have not experieced that. For some reason, I set the option to restart Arena every two games when playing long games and every 10 games when playing short games. I assume that helps, but I did not set it that for a reason - I just happend to select those settings.
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