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[dschulpius]

I have a problem that's freezing my Hyperpin setup when using the latest 9.0.10.

After starting and playing a Visual Pinball table and exiting back into Hyperpin my Windows XP Taskbar shows up at the side of my monitor. This stops Hyperpin from working and I have to hook up my mouse and click the right mouse button. Once I do this the Taskbar disappears and Hyperpin is functional again.

I also noticed that if I just start a table and leave it in attract mode I can exit back into Hyperpin just fine. I have to actually start game play for this to happen.

I checked in my Taskbar Properties and I do not have "Keep the Taskbar on top of other windows" checked.

All was working fine with ver 9.0.9 till I upgraded to 9.0.10

I switched back and forth between the older version of Visual Pinball 9.0.9 and the newer 9.0.10. The Taskbar problem goes away when I run the older version. There must be either a bug in the newer version or something with my system that has a problem with it.

I guess I'll go back to running the older version.

Thanks, Dave

[dschulpius]

I have a problem that's freezing my Hyperpin setup when using the latest 9.0.10.

After starting and playing a Visual Pinball table and exiting back into Hyperpin my Windows XP Taskbar shows up at the side of my monitor. This stops Hyperpin from working and I have to hook up my mouse and click the right mouse button. Once I do this the Taskbar disappears and Hyperpin is functional again.

I also noticed that if I just start a table and leave it in attract mode I can exit back into Hyperpin just fine. I have to actually start game play for this to happen.

I checked in my Taskbar Properties and I do not have "Keep the Taskbar on top of other windows" checked.

All was working fine with ver 9.0.9 till I upgraded to 9.0.10

I switched back and forth between the older version of Visual Pinball 9.0.9 and the newer 9.0.10. The Taskbar problem goes away when I run the older version. There must be either a bug in the newer version or something with my system that has a problem with it.

I guess I'll go back to running the older version.


OK, I guess I was wrong. The problem has appeared with the older version now.

All was working fine till I did a bunch of stuff today. Don't know what did the damage. Here's some of the changes I made:

Upgraded Visual Pinball to the latest version from 9.0.9 to 9.0.10
Shut down a bunch of Windows Services
Installed Windows SP3
Upgraded my driver on my Sound Blaster Sound Card

Probabley did other things that I cant remember.

Any Ideas how to keep the Taskbar under and hid from Hyperpin?

Thanks for any help.
Dave

Thanks, Dave

[rosve]

I had the same problem but I worked around it by adding a mouse click in the FPLaunch script.

;After closing VP (CloseVP routine)
Sleep, 500
WinActivate, HyperPin
Click 100,100
return

[dschulpius]

I had the same problem but I worked around it by adding a mouse click in the FPLaunch script.

;After closing VP (CloseVP routine)
Sleep, 500
WinActivate, HyperPin
Click 100,100
return

Thanks, I gave it a try and it doesn't seem to help.

Maybe I did it Wrong. Here's the way I did it:

I opened FPLaunch.ahk in Notepad and added to the end:

;After closing VP (CloseVP routine)
Sleep, 500
WinActivate, HyperPin
Click 100,100
return

I then saved it and ran Hyperpin again.

I did notice that when Taskbar is active above Hyperpin that the Mouse pointer is always there no matter where I leave it on the desktop when I launch Hyperpin.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

[settingsons]

Hi - you need to right click on the AHK file and select compile where it will create a new EXE. To get the compile option you need to install AutoHotKey from www.autohotkey.com. It is a small install and is safe.

BTW adding the click fixed the same problem for me which I was having.

[dschulpius]

Hi - you need to right click on the AHK file and select compile where it will create a new EXE. To get the compile option you need to install AutoHotKey from www.autohotkey.com. It is a small install and is safe.

BTW adding the click fixed the same problem for me which I was having.

Thanks! Sadly after doing all that I still have the same problem. Where in the FPLaunch script should I put the entry for the mouse click? At first I put it at the end of the entire script. Then I moved it into the "CloseVP" section right after the Return command.

I still cant figure how the mouse curser gets to the bottom of the Taskbar each time Hyperpin runs. Do you think this is what is activating the Taskbar and bringing it to the top?

[dschulpius]

Hi - you need to right click on the AHK file and select compile where it will create a new EXE. To get the compile option you need to install AutoHotKey from www.autohotkey.com. It is a small install and is safe.

BTW adding the click fixed the same problem for me which I was having.

Thanks! Sadly after doing all that I still have the same problem. Where in the FPLaunch script should I put the entry for the mouse click? At first I put it at the end of the entire script. Then I moved it into the "CloseVP" section right after the Return command.

I still cant figure how the mouse curser gets to the bottom of the Taskbar each time Hyperpin runs. Do you think this is what is activating the Taskbar and bringing it to the top?

OK, I think I have it figured out and got things working right again. I put the following BEFORE the Return command at the end of the CloseVP section:

Sleep, 500
WinActivate, HyperPin
Click 100,100

All seems good now. Thanks!

I'd still like to know what happened and why I need to make this change in the script. Oh well, one of life's little mysteries.

Thanks again, Dave