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Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 #230767 20/03/11 01:55 AM
R RCWiles
RCWiles R	Recently replaced XP with Windows 7 Professional N 64-bit and installed v7.1x of mIRC. System is HP DC7600, 4GB RAM (3.5 effective) and bios/os are current. Anyone else see this behavior?

Re: Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 #230782 20/03/11 01:03 PM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	Did you minimize it to the tray?

Re: Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 Riamus2 #230938 25/03/11 11:05 PM
R RCWiles
RCWiles R	The clearest way I can 'replicate' it is if i use the mIRC tray icon to minimize it. Just after I do, the icon goes away but leaves the process running. There is no presence in the 'applications' list of task manager, either.

Re: Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 #230945 26/03/11 01:08 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,853 London, UK Khaled Hoopy frood
Khaled Hoopy frood Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,853 London, UK	Is it possible that your version of Windows is hiding the mIRC tray icon for some reason?

Re: Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 #230947 26/03/11 01:49 PM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,023 France W Wims Hoopy frood
Wims Hoopy frood W Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 4,023 France	When an application is minimized to the tray, if you set that application (probably the default behavior for new program, I'm not sure) to "Hide icon and notifications" or to "Only show notifications", the icon is hidden and you have to use the little arrow (on the left of the tray) to display those hidden icons. Also, can you enter this in an editbox : Code: //.timer 1 2 noop $!input(mIRC is not freezing!,ao) \| showmirc -t and wait 2 seconds, you should see an input request dialog, if so, the above case apply and mIRC isn't vanishing #mircscripting @ irc.swiftirc.net == the best mIRC help channel

Re: Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 Khaled #231063 30/03/11 09:15 PM
R RCWiles
RCWiles R	Thank you, Khaled. I have the taskbar locked and the icons set to combine/hide labels, but not hide. I'm new to 7 so I will look more and test it that aspect.

Re: Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 Wims #231065 30/03/11 09:20 PM
R RCWiles
RCWiles R	Let me look at Khaled's conception first, but I have looked at the default behavior issue and other apps don't do the same.

Re: Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 #231068 30/03/11 10:47 PM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	The setting is not for the taskbar, but for the tray (called the notification area in windows 7). Right click on the taskbar, choose properties, click customize for notification area. Find mIRC and check the behavior.

Re: Interface Window Vanishing but Process Active 7-64 Khaled #231077 31/03/11 04:26 AM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,641 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,641 Montreal, QC, Canada	Khaled: It's not being hidden "for some reason"-- the default behaviour for programs minimized to tray in Win7 is to "Only show notifications". The user must manually change it to show in tray for each unique .exe file on the system which has this behaviour. There is no way to change this default setting for all applications. mIRC should be wary of this behaviour if it minimizes to tray by default. Win7 is attempting to silently "deprecate" tray usage in favour of the "superbar". Although I can't stand the "superbar" myself, mIRC should probably start moving in this direction, or more weird things like this will start happening.

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