[PC] full screen and games that can't accept input in background

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[PC] full screen and games that can't accept input in background

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Many games cannot take input when not in foreground, and in GIMX case where PC is the destination platform and the user will be using a keyboard, the "RawInput" window must be in foreground, so those games can't take any input.

And even for games that accept input in background, fullscreen is not possible as the "RawInput" must be in focus.

Is there some regular way to overcome this?
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Re: [PC] full screen and games that can't accept input in background

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As far as I know there's Windows limitation about capturing mouse input in background but as always, there should be some tricky way to do that.

Unfortunately @Matlo is on holidays so for now you have to use other PC.

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Re: [PC] full screen and games that can't accept input in background

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I'll try to add this in a future release.
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Re: [PC] full screen and games that can't accept input in background

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This should be fixed in GIMX 7.8: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2704
Feedback is very welcome!
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Re: [PC] full screen and games that can't accept input in background

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GIMX 7.10 adds an additional input method - "Physical devices (elevated privileges)" - for catching inputs in background with a foreground application running with elevated privileges.
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