Windows stealing focus
We are having the problem that Windows occassionally (and at random) steals focus from the running OpenSesame experiment and forces us back to the desktop. This seems to be a Windows thing (10, if it makes a difference), rather than some other process stealing focus, as there's no dialog box or any indication that something wants our attention.
Is there any way to force your experiment to stay as the top most, full-screen window (e.g., perhaps with a Windows API call, if Python can do that), to avoid this from happening?
Thanks;
C
P.S., If it's useful: OpenSesame 2.9, with the legacy backend (the only one that's compatible with my experiment), running on Windows 10. We haven't witnessed the same problem within Windows 7, but the test machine is Win10.
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Hi,
This indeed sounds like something windows 10-related. I haven't switched to windows 10 myself yet, so I'm not sure about this, but did you check if windows 10 came with quirky settings? Microsoft tends to put some horrible features in their latest products, like automatic cloud updates, background installers etc. and the first thing you usually want to do is to set all that nonsense off (or throw it away altogether, if possible). Like I said, I'm not sure, but it might do the trick?
Cheers,
Josh