[AG-TECH] disabling sloppy focus

[Jason Pepas]

In this instance, "focus" refers to which program your window manager has
brought to the foreground, and is sending all mouse clicks and keystroke
events to.  When you click on a window's title bar, it is said that you
give it "focus".

There are several schemes for window focus switching.  "Sloppy" focus is
the scheme where the window under the mouse cursor is the one which gets
the focus.

Windows XP, of course, does not use sloppy focus.  However, it looks
like the video windows produced by vic somehow override the focus
switching scheme of the operating system.  The result is an inconsistent
experience, where some windows obey sloppy focus, and others don't.
Some people prefer consistent behavior, which explains my earlier
question.

-jason pepas

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:16:00AM -0500, John I Quebedeaux Jr wrote:
> Jason,
> 
> I'm not up on tech jargon it seems - what's "sloppy focus"?
> 
> Focus is handled by the cameras. The quality of the compression is  
> handled by the VIC.
> 
> If you have focus issues on the cameras due to lighting/zooming/ 
> contrast issues you will need to address this with the camera itself.  
> You can switch focus to manual if for example you have something that  
> moves in front of the camera repeatedly causing it to refocus often  
> while on a main subject (like someone walking in front of the  
> camera), etc.
> 
> Depends on the particular camera, but all the Canon and Sony ones  
> i've used do it the same way.
> 
> -JQ
> -- 
> John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.
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> 
> On Jun 16, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Jason Pepas wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is it possible to disable sloppy focus between individual video  
> >windows?
> >
> >I am using Access Grid on Windows XP.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jason Pepas
> >
> >
>