EventGhost wierdness and desktop corruption

[kricker]

For the past month now I've been getting some strange EventGhost (3.6.1476) behavior. It manifests itself as a corrupt looking desktop and overall system slowdown. The desktop looks corrupt in that there looks to be the 2 black edges of a window or two that will not go away. Just the black lines that look look edges of a window, no real window at all. I'll try to take a screen shot next time it happens. If I right click on EventGhost and choose exit the desktop refreshes itself and the system speeds backup, but EventGhost is still running in the task manager. I have to end the task.

Has anyone seen anything like this?

[kricker]

It hasn't happend yet. But, I was running in debug mode. I quit EG due to other reasons, and a popup said the log had errors in it, do you want to see it. So here it is.

[Bitmonster]

If you run it with -debug you always get the message, that a log is written. Your log shows no errors or oddities.

[kricker]

I didn't hink it showed any errors, but since the pop-up mentioned there were errors, I figured I should post it. Anyhow, I traced down my issue. It is when I am using the "maximize" window action. If the same macro that holds that actions runs multiple times, each time it runs the system slows down to become unresponsive. I'll post my xml file shortly. I am using a macro to maximize utorrent or launch it then maximize it if it was not already running.

[kricker]

Here is the xml file. The find utorrent macro is the one with the offending maximize function.

[Bitmonster]

Your search for the windows is much to wide. It will find all windows including child windows of the program, even the invisible ones. And the maximize action will then try to maximize all of them. Confine the search to only find the right toplevel window.

[kricker]

OK. Will do. I left it broad because when I update utorrent, the names of specific windows change slightly.

[Bitmonster]

You can use wildcards ({*} and {?}) in the search, like Window Name:

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uTorrent Version{*}

[kricker]

HEHE. You read my mind. I was wondering if that was possible. What does the {?} wildcard stand for?

[Bitmonster]

A single character. So "a{?}c" will find "abc" and "adc", but not "abdc".

[kricker]

I specified the "window name" and told it to only return 1 th choice. All is great now. Thank You!