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Offline STEELE

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Tabbing out problem
« on: April 26, 2011, 03:59:12 PM »
Every other time I try to alt-tab out or windows key to put on music or ect. during climbout,
AH blinks off for a sec., then comes back up with the cursor locked and my regular Windows cursor on the screen, and the keyboard is frozen (cant use autoclimb or text) for about 5 minutes. This is happening about half the time, the other half it works normally.
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Offline DeadStik

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Re: Tabbing out problem
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2011, 04:03:03 PM »
This has happened to me before as well. The solution (for me) is bizarre. If you repeatedly press alt + tab, alt + tab, alt +tab, AH will eventually minimize. Once you maximize it again, your mouse and keyboard should work normally.
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Offline STEELE

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Re: Tabbing out problem
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2011, 01:27:15 AM »
I tried the repeating alt-tab alt-tab thing, still didn't work most of the time, tonight I logged in, then clicked "Web Page Help", AH blinked for a sec, then same thing happened, regular desktop cursor appeared on screen, and the AH cursor was frozen in place, all keyboard keys frozen.  :uhoh   It's the worst bug I have ever experienced!  :furious
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Offline Gaidin

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Re: Tabbing out problem
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2011, 06:24:23 AM »
What specs does your system run?  This sounds like a low resources problem rather than a bug with AH
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Offline katanaso

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Re: Tabbing out problem
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2011, 09:16:14 AM »
It has happened to me as well.

My solution:  move the invisible mouse to the taskbar area, and left-click on where you think AH or another program is listed.  It will either resume AH or switch windows to the other program you clicked on.

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