BSPlayer stealing focus in multi-monitor setup

rempe · #1 (**permalink**) 3rd August 2008

More of an annoyance than a bug. I have a dual monitor setup, and typically have bsplayer running and maximised on the secondary display, and several other programs (Word/Excel/Firefox etc) on the primary display. If I interact with bsplayer (to pause it, adjust the volume etc) and then return to using another program on the primary display, bsplayer will keep trying to steal focus every few seconds, for about 10-20 seconds. It's aggravating, especially when I'm typing something else out and I end up accidentally invoking strange menu options in bsplayer that I don't know how to reverse.

I'm using BSPlayer Pro v2.24, and my graphics card is a generic with an 8800GTS chipset.

Tizio · #2 (**permalink**) 3rd August 2008

And if you have BSplayer and the other application both on the first monitor this behavior doesn't happen?

Sapien2 · #3 (**permalink**) 7th May 2009

Same problem on double monitor setup. BSplayer running on main monitor steals focus from app window on second monitor. This is very annoying bug, especially when you try to answer instant message while watching movie. BSplayer window got focused and letters are interpreted as commands.

When both windows are on first monitor there is no such problem.
upd
Easiest way to reproduce a bug - switch player to fullscreen mode on first monitor.

upd
Bug seems to be fullscreen focus retaining mechanism.
But bug can be reproduced with both windows on first monitor. Steps:
1) Start a clip
2) switch to fullscreen
3) switch to windowed mode
4) immediately after previous step set focus to another window
5) bsplayer steals focus

Sapien2 · #4 (**permalink**) 21st June 2009

Bug still can be reproduced in BsPlayer Pro 1.41.1003

Sapien2 · #5 (**permalink**) 31st October 2009

Bug still reproduces in BSPlayer 2.50 free when both windows on main monitor.
Any suggestions on how to fix or disable this behavior?

Sapien2 · #6 (**permalink**) 18th November 2009

Can anyone from dev-team pay attention to this bug? It is REALLY annoying.

Sapien2 · #7 (**permalink**) 9th December 2009

bumpp

Sapien2 · #8 (**permalink**) 22nd January 2010

Is there any way to switch off this behavior, by adjusting some setting or ini-file parameter?

zoowho · #9 (**permalink**) 16th February 2010

I don't know if this is relevant to this situation, but I noticed BS Player (2.51 in my case) returns to the foreground if you click another window before waiting a few seconds (4 or 5). Turning off "Auto hide main window" in General/General settings stops it from happening. It seems like a bug and may have been submitted already (haven't checked).

EDIT:

You actually have to do something to the player such as moving the player window for the bug to occur.

Apparently it's a very old bug:

auto hide main window problem

Ico-man · #10 (**permalink**) 16th February 2010

We cannot reproduce this behaviour on any configuration.

zoowho · #11 (**permalink**) 16th February 2010

Very odd. I just installed BS Player in a clean install of windows 7 x64 running in a virtual machine (vmware) using all the default settings. The problem occurs.

Sapien2 · #12 (**permalink**) 17th February 2010

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoowho

I don't know if this is relevant to this situation, but I noticed BS Player (2.51 in my case) returns to the foreground if you click another window before waiting a few seconds (4 or 5). Turning off "Auto hide main window" in General/General settings stops it from happening. It seems like a bug and may have been submitted already (haven't checked).

EDIT:

You actually have to do something to the player such as moving the player window for the bug to occur.

Apparently it's a very old bug:

auto hide main window problem

Turning this setting off solves my problem too.