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Posted by Insta   (3 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #15 on Fri 03 Aug 2001 08:45 PM (UTC)
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Just a quick update.
It dosen't flash as it does when there is new activity.. it just fills with a solid color until you activate that window.

I'm very certain it does this in Windows 2000 because of the title bar changes (detailed in my previous message).
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #16 on Fri 03 Aug 2001 09:59 PM (UTC)
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I know there is a different operating system call for flashing the title in Windows 2000, but I haven't used it because a lot of people will still use Windows 95/98/NT/ME.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Justice   (4 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #17 on Sat 01 Dec 2001 11:37 AM (UTC)
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Hmm, do you have worlds closed? I just submitted a RF because, on the activity bar, you cannot distinguish "closed, no activity" and "closed, activity (which causes the bar to flash)".
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #18 on Sun 02 Dec 2001 05:30 AM (UTC)
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How do you get activity on a closed world anyway?
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Dave   Australia  (93 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #19 on Tue 15 Jan 2002 07:59 AM (UTC)
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I also have been experiencing this on Windows 2000. I don't even have "New activity flashes taskbar icon" turned on, and as others have said, it happens when I alt-tab into MUSHclient, and within a second or so, alt-tab back out. It also works by clicking/clicking off in the taskbar itself.

For me, the taskbar icon stays blue permanently until I go back into MUSHclient. This happens whether there has been activity or not. I would have assumed by turning "New activity flashes taskbar icon" off, no blinking would have been possible at ALL(?)

Dave
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Posted by Shadowfyr   USA  (1,792 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #20 on Tue 15 Jan 2002 08:28 PM (UTC)
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This is a fairly well known bug (feature) of 2000. They changed the way it works some how and a lot of programs that use that feature tend to blink when nothing is happening. Either ignore it or turn it off. Either way, it won't work right on 2000, as I have been informed by a large number of people. ;)
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Posted by Dave   Australia  (93 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #21 on Wed 16 Jan 2002 01:20 AM (UTC)
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That's just the problem. It WON'T turn off. :/
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #22 on Wed 16 Jan 2002 01:53 AM (UTC)
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Can't you turn off the "flash the taskbar icon" option on the Output configuration?
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Dave   Australia  (93 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #23 on Wed 16 Jan 2002 02:09 AM (UTC)
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Assuming you mean "New activity flashes taskbar icon" in Appearance|Output (alt+5), yes it is turned off, but the problem persists.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #24 on Wed 16 Jan 2002 03:05 AM (UTC)
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Pesky thing. That shouldn't happen then. :)
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Szereck   (5 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #25 on Thu 07 Feb 2002 11:52 AM (UTC)
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This problem occurs in WinXP as well... I've found that of you take your time when switching windows it does not occur... Also if you minimize the program it shouldn't claim that there is activity... Its still rather frustrating that you can't quickly switch windows without it making false claims... I'm currently running the latest version of MUSHClient...

Szereck
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Posted by Krenath   USA  (76 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #26 on Mon 08 Apr 2002 09:56 PM (UTC)
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I too have been having this same problem with MUSHclient + Windows 2000.

MUSHclient will flash the taskbar for me even though I've explicitly set this option off for all worlds.
- Krenath from
bDv TrekMUSH
ATS TrekMUSH
TNG TrekMUSE
TOS TrekMUSE
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #27 on Tue 09 Apr 2002 12:35 AM (UTC)
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Ah, OK, I see what is happening here.

Contrary to the documentation, which is a bit vague anyway, some code is possibly flashing the icon when MUSHclient becomes active.

See bug #456.

However on my reading of the code, it should only happen when the world becomes active, but I will change it so that the FlashWindow function is only called if it is explicitly needed.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Koitsu   (3 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #28 on Tue 09 Apr 2002 02:06 PM (UTC)
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Just a follow-up to this thread. It's now April 2002, and I can attest to this bug *still existing*. I use Windows XP.

I only use mushclient for one MUD, and believe me, there is *no* activity.

The easiest way to test this is to simply click on the "MUSHclient" entry in the title bar while the application is maximized (which will in turn minimize the application).

It seems to me that the application "randomly" sets activity in the taskbar. If you click the "MUSHclient" title bar entry over and over, after a few times it will stop flashing (until you minimize it again ;-) ).

This quite possibly has something to do with the fact that when you click on the title bar, randomly the actual *title itself* changes. In my case, the title bar seems to flip between the title "MUSHclient" and "MUSHclient (Registered to <my name> - [World I am in]".

This should definitely get fixed sometime soon, being as I just coughed up $20.00 for this thing. zMUD is just bloated, plain and simple.
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Posted by Koitsu   (3 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #29 on Tue 09 Apr 2002 02:07 PM (UTC)
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Whoa. For some reason the entire thread wasn't shown (otherwise I wouldn't have posted what I did). Geez, don't I feel like a sod. :-)
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