How to stop pop Ups?

SlackR

Banned
SlackR
So close to death on a long haul passenger mission today! Crashed coming into land on a planets surface when an iTunes update popped up and took out my controls! The passenger was not happy and neither was my ship! :p

I remember someone posting a solution for this, but cant find it.

Thanks.
 

Exigeous

Exigeous
The way I handle this, and what I think is the best way, is a small AutoHotKey script that monitors a device for input and when it sees that input it puts the Elite window back into focus (or just confirms focus). I have it track my stick, that way if something pops and I lose control (but don't see since I'm in VR) I can just bump the stick and blamo, focus back and control back.

Here's a Reddit post with more details. Pretty much must have for VR+HOTAS players, before I set it up I would constantly lose focus and go plowing full throttle into a star, etc.
 

X-Terminator

Banned
X-Terminator
Ah so this is the reason for me losing control of the Ship and it acting as though ALT+TAB were pressed! This has happened many times to me and the last one caused my Python to be destroyed. I thought my Razor Mouse profiler would have stopped it by disabling those keys but it wasn't the cause.

I'll pick a solution me thinks...
 

SlackR

Banned
SlackR
X-Terminator said:
Ah so this is the reason for me losing control of the Ship and it acting as though ALT+TAB were pressed! This has happened many times to me and the last one caused my Python to be destroyed. I thought my Razor Mouse profiler would have stopped it by disabling those keys but it wasn't the cause.

I'll pick a solution me thinks...
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It's a real problem in VR... you'd think oculus would have a function inside home for this. Anyway thanks for the solutions people :)
 

Exigeous

Exigeous
Full_Ninja said:
I've never experienced this. Is this a rift specific issue?
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Could be, but it's not really about the headset. It's about the main Elite game window losing focus to the desktop or another app. Then your controls go dead as they aren't sending input to the game window anymore but rather whatever app/desktop you landed on. The script I shared will then see you move your stick (or whatever you want to track) and when it sees movement there it sets the main window to focus on Elite. Not so much a VR issue except in VR we have no visual clue this has happened since we can't see our desktops. I have a small platform on the side of my chair where I put my mouse. As I have a motion system if I forget and leave my mouse there first hard bank and it gets thrown 10 feet across the room, clicking at some point and changing window focus. Resulting in a few deaths while scrambling to get the damn thing.
 

Turranius

Turranius
Exigeous said:
The way I handle this, and what I think is the best way, is a small AutoHotKey script that monitors a device for input and when it sees that input it puts the Elite window back into focus (or just confirms focus). I have it track my stick, that way if something pops and I lose control (but don't see since I'm in VR) I can just bump the stick and blamo, focus back and control back.
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Yepp, thats exactly what my little program I posted about above does as well =) I have voice notifications etc in mine as well though so you know when it happens.
 
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