Stay on Top

[gEd]

that's good news , I wasn;t looking forward to debugging it! ( The original code is by Liteswap, I have just modified it for NPVR). If it all seems to work ok, I may have to put it up on the wiki along with the source code for those that want to tweak it.

[garymeds]

excellenbt - thanks gEd. worth putting this on the wiki? took me awhile to find if someone had updated the script and that's knowing what to look for and guessing what it would be called!

[bcchgeneral]

I've tried the utility that gEd kindly put up, and it does restart NPVR for me, but the 'Stay on top' function remains unchecked (on the context menu in NPVR) and I have to recheck it again every time I launch NPVR. Does this happen to anyone else?

I tried searching config.xml for a setting, but couldn't find it.

Any thoughts?

I'm running NPVR 2.6.2 on Windows 7.

[mvallevand]

There is a command line switch -ontop you can add to your shortcut that toggles the default to on.

Martin

[bcchgeneral]

Thanks @mvallevand! That's done the trick.

My apologies gEd - after more testing, your wonderful utility does do the trick as well! Although I'm not actually wanting for it to launch NPVR after I've manually exited NPVR.

Thank you for your help!

[turbofeet]

I am a new user but had this same issue when Launching NextPVR from another application. In my case J-River Media Center.

It would launch fine but J-River also stays in focus so keystrokes would go to that instead of NextPVR.

J-River would normally minimize itself when launching an application but for some reason not with NextPVR.

Anyway - here is my Autohotkey (AHK) for launching NextPVR and it works pretty well. Previously I just minimized J-River however sometimes when you play a channel NextPVR tends to lose focus again. It was easier to get J-River hidden completely:

DetectHiddenWindows, On
WinWait, JRiver Media Center 21
WinMinimize, JRiver Media Center 21
WinHide, JRiver Media Center 21
Run, "C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\NextPVR.exe " -ontop,C:\ max
IfWinNotActive, NextPVR, , WinActivate, NextPVR,
WinWaitActive, NextPVR,
CoordMode, Mouse, Screen
MouseMove, (A_ScreenWidth // 4), (A_ScreenHeight // 4)
MouseClick, left
WinWaitNotActive, NextPVR
WinRestore, JRiver Media Center 21
WinShow, JRiver Media Center 21

You can compile the script into an EXE file using Autohotkey downloaded from here:

http://www.autohotkey.com/

Just save the above script as a <name>.ahk file.

If you are launching NextPVR from another application (other than J-River) then just change every reference to "JRiver Media Center 21" to the Window title of the application you are launching from.

Hope this helps some people.