Backglass not on top in PBX 5.44

[Mike_da_Spike]

Starting from PBX 5.44, my backglass videos are not on top anymore.
Any program that is on the backglass, will be showed as a overlay within PBX.
Launching a (vpx) table will show the correct backglass during game, but when returning , I still have the programs showed

alt+tab to the PinballX BG and focus to PF again, will show all fine (even after video is displayed

Here's a small video to illustrate the issue

and my log and settings files 

 

log.txt PinballX.ini

Edited July 22, 2022 by Mike_da_Spike
Scutters has an issue with new bersion

[Tom Speirs]

i cant think of anything that has changed. i guess i could make the backglass topmost but again, i can't think of anything different in the latest release. Did you maybe make your app topmost?

[Mike_da_Spike]

Hi Tom, 
Thanks for replying.
Its not just the app(that was an example)  but also explorer, command prompts, notepad etc.

EDIT : 
If I have explorer opened for example on my backglass, it will move to back when I launch a table. and will not re-appear until PBX closes and relaunches
I can come around this by minimize all apps during launch of PinballX, if this is not a PinballX issue
Here's another video, that will show default windows apps 

 

Edited July 22, 2022 by Mike_da_Spike
Added new video and

[Tom Speirs]

i made the DMD and Backglass topmost in 5.45. Uploading now. Let me know if it fixes it.

Thanks,

Tom.

[Mike_da_Spike]

Good job @Tom Speirs 
Version 5.45 works again as it worked before
And also the plugins that I use is still on top of the BG 
this thread can be closed

[scutters]

The v5.45 fix causes issues on my setup;

Everything is fine in the front end, but after launching a table the actual B2S backglass (visual pinball) appears behind the PinballX backglass (i have pinballx set not to hide the backglass video as it looks nicer during table loading). The 'bring to front' option for the tables B2S backglass is set.

I can't ALT+TAB to bring the B2S backglass to the front, so in a game with backglass scoring like pinbot i am left with a looping video instead of the B2S scores.

 

(Note - i do have a slightly obscure setup, i have an OBS window below the PinballX backglass window [this is used to mirrow the playfield to the left third of the backglass screen], with PinballX [and in game backglasses] configured to use the right two thirds of the screen, but this has been working fine in PinballX and in game for a some time now)

PinballX.ini log.txt

[Mike_da_Spike]

Not sure if it helps, but recently the directb2sserver has been updated.

Did you try the latest version ? 

https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=12553

[scutters]

2 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

Not sure if it helps, but recently the directb2sserver has been updated.

Did you try the latest version ? 

https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=12553

Cheers Mike, you're right - i'm not on the latest B2S version. Was in a bit of a rush earlier so no chance to try with that but thought it was best to log the potential problem early. I will investigate with that B2S version tomorrow, as i only VPX i don't have any other systems to worry about so that might do it for me.

I'll also have to check what happens with puppacks on the backglass and dmd too.

[Mike_da_Spike]

@Tom Speirs
I agree with @scutters. Although Directb2s is working fine for me, I have a few table that requires pinup player and the backglass screens PBX is on top (I have set not to hide the backglass during playing as it loads nicely during game) and some screens of the pinup player are behind it.

So think topmost must be removed from BG (and dmd ?. Not sure for DMD as I used a real DMD)

And for me, I will use a script at launch that will do a minimize all windows

[scutters]

8 hours ago, Mike_da_Spike said:

@Tom Speirs
I agree with @scutters. Although Directb2s is working fine for me, I have a few table that requires pinup player and the backglass screens PBX is on top (I have set not to hide the backglass during playing as it loads nicely during game) and some screens of the pinup player are behind it.

So think topmost must be removed from BG (and dmd ?. Not sure for DMD as I used a real DMD)

And for me, I will use a script at launch that will do a minimize all windows

Sorry Tom, confirmed for me too.. PinballX BG and DMD 'topmost' show on top of puppacks too for me. For now i will use V5.44.

[Mike_da_Spike]

16 hours ago, scutters said:

Sorry Tom, confirmed for me too.. PinballX BG and DMD 'topmost' show on top of puppacks too for me. For now i will use V5.44.

Yeah, I'm to 5.44 as well and created a small program that I run during PBX launch :

MinimizeAllWindows.exe

[Tom Speirs]

Okay, ill put it back. Again nothing has changed in PinballX other than what I just did for you.

[Mike_da_Spike]

1 hour ago, Tom Speirs said:

Okay, ill put it back. Again nothing has changed in PinballX other than what I just did for you.

Odd, but thanks for checking (and modifying) and with the small program, it is working for me.

 

Thanks for all your help Tom