Possible to force Hcenc 0.23 to work minimized during its encoding process?

[stenews]

Hi manolito,
this is me stefano a guy you helped so much in the past couple of months. I hope you'll remember about me.

I'm writing this new thread to ask you if it's possible to force Hcenc 0.23 to work minimized during its encoding process, with the help of SmartDialog.
You have well taught me how to make it works with CCE (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=148819) but during the preparation stage DVD-RB use Hcenc and even if it starts minimized it makes the focus out on my foreground window.
What kind of code line should I add to the smartdlg.dat to fix up that problem too?

Thanks you very much indeed for you help.
stefano.

[jdobbs]

In the SETUP dialog, select "Run Encoders Minimized" or you can just add "EncoderMinimized=1" to the "[Options]" area of the INI file (same thing).

CCE is a little different, because even when you tell the process to minimize, the status window comes up anyway.

[stenews]

Hi jdobbs,
I'm happy to read your answer :)

select "Run Encoders Minimized" or you can just add "EncoderMinimized=1" to the "[Options]" area of the INI file
I already did it, but even if the encoder window starts minimized I still lose the focus on the most foreground window, I mean the one I'm actually working on.
What I'm doing wrong to have this sort of behavior?

Thank you very much indeed to you and to anyone else can give me any further help

Bye,
Stefano

[jdobbs]

Hi jdobbs,
I'm happy to read your answer :)


I already did it, but even if the encoder window starts minimized I still lose the focus on the most foreground window, I mean the one I'm actually working on.
What I'm doing wrong to have this sort of behavior?

Thank you very much indeed to you and to anyone else can give me any further help

Bye,
Stefano Hmmm.... not sure. The process shouldn't get the focus, as the flags I'm using is "MinimizedNoFocus"

[stenews]

well...may be it just my fault, I mean it's just me the problem!

I'll give a good restart and I'll try the process over again.

Thank you very much indeed for your help
Bye,
Stefano.

[manolito]

Hi Stefano,

if you are using WinXP there is a workaround. Get TweakUI (part of the MS PowerToys) and enable The X-Mouse feature. This feature makes sure that the window which has the mouse pointer will always have the focus. For Vista and Win7 I have no idea...

Cheers
manolito

[stenews]

Hi manolito,
it's nice to read again your post :) and thanks for answering me.

Is it a everyone common problem or it's just me?

Thanks
Stefano.

P.S.
I'm WinXp user

[stenews]

it's working, thanks mate!

Instead of using X-mouse I checked the Prevent Focus on the General tab.

thanks you very much indeed!!

[manolito]

Good to hear...:)

After your initial post I did a couple of tests, and for some reason the "prevent focus" option did not work for me. And yes, this is not just you, it is standard windows behavior. Whenever a new application is started (either by the user or by another software) then this newly started application takes the focus away from the foreground app. It even looks like starting a new app with the "MinimizedNoFocus" flag does not help.


Cheers
manolito

[stenews]

Thank you so much, mate :)
I really appreciate your interest in helping me

Cheers,
stefano