(SCS 11.2.5) MEMO cue preventing fireing next cue

[techniekhofplein]

I'm having some trouble with the memo cue. When a memo cue is fired and the message is displaying it is not possible to fire the next manual cue bij pressing the spacebar once. I have to press again to make the next cue fire. With a right-click of my mouse however there is no problem at all. The cues don't require the GO confirmation so I guess this has something to do with focus of some sort. (The warning "SCS main window doesn't have focus" does not appear however.)

Anyone having the same problem?

[jmgordon]

Have you looked at this thread ?

[techniekhofplein]

Yes jmgordon. I have. But the problem described there is similar but not the same. I can't fire any other cue before the time I set for the MEMO is over. Not even an SFR cue. When I don't set the time (set to continuous), I have to press spacebar (=GO) twice before the next cue is fired. This problem doesn't occur when GOing with a right-click of a mouse. (I don't want to use a mouse for cueing however, because of practical problems (read: space on the desk).)

[jmgordon]

Slightly confused by this. On both my WXP and WS& machines in 11.2.5, once started the memo window stays in the foreground but does not take focus, so that a single spacebar press starts the next cue. I tried moving the window around the screen to see if a particular position caused the effect you mention, but there was no problem. If there is a loss of focus but no focus warning it may suggest an issue with your installation. No doubt Mike can make a suggestion. If you make the SFR cue a hotkey does that work?

[Mike Daniell]

I'm also not able to reproduce this problem, techniekhofplein,so I've emailed you details of a tracing version to run. That will hopefully provide more information regarding what's happening.

[Mike Daniell]

Thanks for the log files, etc. What may be happening is that in your environment the keyboard action (eg space bar to activate 'Go') is being passed to the Memo window, not to the Main window. This would be because the space bar is pressed before SCS forces focus back to the Main window.

I've modified the processing to (a) check for keyboard activity in the Memo window as well as in the Main window, and (b) to force focus back to the Main window earlier in the overall Memo cue processing. I've emailed you details of a new version that includes these changes.