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I find I need to constantly switch back and forth between Windows and VirtualRPC and herein lies a minor but irritating problem...
When in Windows, with VRPC in a window, mouse movement (and clicks) gets through to RISC OS because it has input focus until you click the mouse somewhere in outside VRPC. The irritating thing is that each time you close a window on the Win desktop it gives focus back to VRPC. This can often mean 'rogue' mouse clicks getting through to RISC OS and sometimes the damage can be devastating (e.g. a few directories accidentally get marked and a click on an icon that results in delete action wipes out some important data). I believe this may be why I could not find a whole month's temporary files in TempDir.
So, is there any way that we can do one of the following:
a) stop VRPC accepting mouse actions when in windowed mode
b) putting VRPC minimised on the task bar by default
(both perhaps should be options the user could select)

The issue of the mouse pointer (or should we say pointers) needs a fix.
Why can it work like every other Windows application, including Red Squirrel?

I can do no more than add my voice to this. The two pointers bit is the worst aspect of VRPC and a is real pain.

We aer trialing an integrated pointer solution on the Mac VRPC. The hope is to port this code back into the Windows version once we are happy with it.

Excellent News

As its 2 years since the comment about trialing a new integrated pointer may I ask is it working yet?
Or does it not work on Vista?

Apologies, we simply haven't had any time to spend on it over the last year and a bit. I am intending to get this and some other changes/improvements sorted this year.

I thought it might be worth mentioning that I've invented a workaround which avoids the problem I originally reported. What I've done is to create an AutoIt3 script which runs VRPC if ts not already running, or switches to it if is already running. Then it sits there waiting for a signal from RISC OS (the deletion of a file) to know when to switch back to windows, and it then minimizes VRPC. The fact that it auto-minimizes VRPC avoids the problem
This took quite a while to perfect (because of timing oddities and window control) but its now been working reliably for many months. If anyone would like more details then feel free to email me: m ik e (at) m hobbs. de mon. co. uk.