PB hiding my taskbar

[Fogyreef]

With the introduction of the latest version my taskbar has been kidnapped. When I play the taskbar no longer shows, included alt-tabbing out. Closing the games but leaving PB running brings the bar back. Solution?

Also, when I choose "force window maximized mode" the games load much faster. Know why?

Note: Two monitors, with main on mon1, 4 slaves on mon2. Win7.

[Ualaa]

Not sure about the PB stuff.
But a couple of questions for you.

Would you prefer PB to be there, and your Taskbar to be there too?
Or for it to auto hide the Taskbar while PB is open?
Or perhaps to hide the Taskbar unless you mouse over it?
Or hidden while PB is an active window, but visible if anything else is (alt-tabbed out)?
How about a toggle or selector, to switch between these modes?

Most boxing software forces the game into windowed mode.
It generally helps if each of the windows/game-clients are all set to windowed or windowed full screen, and that your software is set to the same; I'd guess you have Warcraft set for Windowed & Maximized and setting the software for this option means it doesn't need to change how Wow behaves...

[Fogyreef]

The way it used to work is that I would have the task bar on auto hide, have game1 on mon1 in windowed/max mode, and use PB to size the game window so the task bar could be accessed.

Now what is happening is the task bar, auto-hide or no, won't show. So basically I can't access any program that isn't already running. I just want it back to the way it was a few weeks ago. :P

[xartin]

There's a new option added to pwnboxer to "hide windows taskbar" if it's selected. It only works if the option is enabled and you start all games with it enabled.

It will also only un-hide the taskbar if you "close all games"

As i understand it this "feature" was added to address a known bug in windows 7 that does not hide the windows taskbar behind a game launched with pwnboxer in full screen windowed mode. If your affected by this bug you would have to change your windows taskbar to auto hide in the taskbar preferences or the taskbar will stay in the foreground.

[Fogyreef]

Oh holy crap. Snuck that one in on me, didja Tim? :P

Thanks!

[Chamassa]

Originally Posted by Fogyreef

Oh holy crap. Snuck that one in on me, didja Tim? :P

Thanks!

Hehe, yea we added that to 2.5, for the next build it will be a direct toggle, so you can change it without closing all games first But glad you like it!

[Tim]

Yup We are working on a new build of PB, probably week or 2 away, to address some minor bug fixes and enhancements