Alt + tab issues (minimizing?)

[MolokoTheMole]

Alt tabbing Irrlicht in fullscreen produces some weird behaviour, namely it switches to windowed mode but without a window, you are stuck with a rectangle in the top left corner of the screen. Alt tabbing again sometimes switches the resolution in fullscreen??

I would like to do this properly cause it is a critical issue especially in a multiplayer game were people constantly alt+tab to chat with somebody.

How could I fix it? The simplest would be to minimize the application but I don't know how to do it in Irrlicht.

[Gtoknu]

Maybe if you tell the device to yield when the window is not active, this will not occur. Try it out

[no_response]

using win api

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ShowWindow(GetForegroundWindow(), SW_MINIMIZE);

if you need to make it minimize on alt+tab specificaly, just play around with

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GetAsyncKeyState() // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646293(VS.85).aspx

[hybrid]

You can minimize and restore windows also via the Irrlicht API. The device has the necessary methods.