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Title: Winuae strange problem
Post by: z5 on March 23, 2003, 11:35:46 AM
on my pc, i had an utility to capture windows or entire screens (to make snapshots).

So what i used to do was to run winuae in a small window on top of my windows desktop. I just had to press a key and the screencapture program captured the winuae window and saved it to disk.

But now, something really strange has happened. Since the latest versions of Winuae (822R3 ->), i'm not able to have multitasking anymore. Meaning that if i run Winuae, i can't even press the windows start key (which brings up the start menu). I can't take any screens anymore. It is as if winuae has taken complete control of my windows. I can't get out of the winuae window anymore unless i press Ctrl Alt Delete.

If i remember correctly, this still was possible with 822R4 but it doesn't work anymore. And i don' t know what caused it to not work anymore. Older versions still work (817 for example).

I have tried reinstalling but it doesn't work. Anyone has had this problem?
Title: Re: Winuae strange problem
Post by: z5 on March 23, 2003, 11:49:57 AM
It seems that my keyboard is disabled. My numlock light turns off everytime that i start winuae. The only key that still seems to work is F12.
Title: Re: Winuae strange problem
Post by: Thomas on March 23, 2003, 04:39:31 PM

WinUAE no longer uses Windows for input but DirectX. Now WinUAE has total control over every key stroke. The only key combination that still works is Alt-Tab.

Bye,
Thomas
Title: Re: Winuae strange problem
Post by: z5 on March 23, 2003, 05:06:39 PM
Quote

Thomas wrote:

WinUAE no longer uses Windows for input but DirectX. Now WinUAE has total control over every key stroke. The only key combination that still works is Alt-Tab.

Bye,
Thomas


Yep, it's seems that way. Since which version is this introduced? Damn, i seem to recall that i still could do it with 88R4. But maybe, by installing a newer version, some of the old install got overwritten?
Title: Re: Winuae strange problem
Post by: z5 on March 23, 2003, 05:33:36 PM
This "feature" seems to have been implemented from version 88R22. It still works with 88R21.

Thanks a lot for the info, thomas ;-)