Browser does not stay on top of GW2

pacman110
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Browser does not stay on top of GW2 Oct 5, 2015 21:00:30 GMT

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Post by pacman110 on Oct 5, 2015 21:00:30 GMT

Hello,

I installed this amazing tool and at the start it was working perfectly. Then, after changing the Client-Language from englisch to german the browser stopped staying on top of the client. It always fades into the background.

Things I tested till now:
- changing the client language back to englisch
- repairing the gameclient via "-repair"-command

The thing is, it seems really random. I got it working twice since the problem occurred. But as soon as I closed and reopened the browser it was behind gw2 again. Everything else is working fine btw.

I'm really lost here and would greatly appreciate any kind of help

Last Edit: Oct 5, 2015 21:26:56 GMT by pacman110

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Browser does not stay on top of GW2 Oct 5, 2015 22:05:32 GMT

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Post by Aerodin on Oct 5, 2015 22:05:32 GMT

Hmm I can't seem to reproduce this. Are you by any chance running the GW2 client as administrator? Are you using GemFX, SweetFX, or any other shader injection tool like that? The PAO app does run into problems like this if the GW2 client is running as administrator, which is often the case if the game client installs a patch or if the user is running a shader injection tool.

If that's the problem, you can fix the issue by running the PAO as administrator.

If you still have the problem, posting some logs might help me figure out what's going on.

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Browser does not stay on top of GW2 Oct 5, 2015 22:12:54 GMT

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Post by pacman110 on Oct 5, 2015 22:12:54 GMT

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Browser does not stay on top of GW2 Oct 5, 2015 22:39:18 GMT

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Post by Aerodin on Oct 5, 2015 22:39:18 GMT

Unfortunately nothing is jumping out at me from your logs...

Can you tell me a little bit more about the behavior? Does it fall behind the game randomly, or when you click on another window and click back on the game window? Any details you can give would be great. Thanks!

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Browser does not stay on top of GW2 Oct 5, 2015 22:59:20 GMT

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Post by pacman110 on Oct 5, 2015 22:59:20 GMT

Sure. I made some strange progress myself.

I start the browser like usual. Then I click, for example into the browser and I can use it like I normally would. But if I click out of the Browser, somewhere in the game it disappears until clicking anything from your tool again.

The interesting part is that the browser does show up when I Alt+Tab (screenshot). While doing that I found out that if I tab back into gw2, the browser automatically lays itself over the game, working as intended without disappearing again (until I close it / restart it).

So I do have a workaround now. Even though I have no idea what might be causing this. Maybe it's windows 10-related? While first trying it out it may be that I alt-tabbed back into the game by accident.

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Browser does not stay on top of GW2 Oct 6, 2015 22:01:52 GMT

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Post by Aerodin on Oct 6, 2015 22:01:52 GMT

There is some code in the PAO that forces the application to be always-on-top when the user sets focus back to GW2. Normally this isn't required, but I had run into some issues during initial testing where even though the application was set to "always-on-top", it would fall back behind the game after setting focus to the client 3 times (click another window, click back on GW2, repeat 3 times). It was really odd. I'll look into this a bit and see if I can figure out what's going on, but it'll probably be awhile. Sorry for the inconvenience, and I'm glad you have a temporary workaround.

Aerodin Administrator Developer Posts: 276	Browser does not stay on top of GW2 Oct 10, 2015 13:13:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Aerodin on Oct 10, 2015 13:13:48 GMT So, I'm not sure why yet, but I can now reproduce this. I will definitely be looking into getting it fixed.

ASSA Guest	Browser does not stay on top of GW2 May 22, 2016 6:52:14 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by ASSA on May 22, 2016 6:52:14 GMT its happening again...any fix on that?

Post by pacman110 on Oct 5, 2015 21:00:30 GMT

Post by Aerodin on Oct 5, 2015 22:05:32 GMT

Post by pacman110 on Oct 5, 2015 22:12:54 GMT

Post by Aerodin on Oct 5, 2015 22:39:18 GMT

Post by pacman110 on Oct 5, 2015 22:59:20 GMT

Post by Aerodin on Oct 6, 2015 22:01:52 GMT

Post by Aerodin on Oct 10, 2015 13:13:48 GMT

Post by ASSA on May 22, 2016 6:52:14 GMT