Alt-Tab Toggle

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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

Alt-Tab Toggle (ATT) will force WoW to the foreground on events when you're alt-tabbed. Optionally you can choose to only play a sound when one of these events fire. Then you can tab back into WoW at your leisure.

Events that ATT will toggle include

Auctioneer scan, search and post complete [W]
BankStack complete [W]
BG Deserter debuff expire,
BG idle debuff,
BG gates opening
Duel request (2.1.5beta),
~~Dungeon Deserter/Cooldown debuff expire~~
Enemy detected,
Enter Battleground window,
Enter combat,
Flight land,
Group invite,
Group ready check,
LFG boot proposal,
LFG enter proposal,
LFG role check,
Mailbox, finished looting (2.1.7beta) [W]
Resurrection request (2.1.2beta)
Summon request,
Trade skill finish crafting [W]
Whispers,
Wintergrasp Starting,
Zeppelin arrival

[W] = window mode only

Leave a ticket if you have another event that should be added.

FAQ:
Q) How does ATT bring WoW to the foreground?
A) ATT uses a console command gxRestart that inadvertently causes WoW to jump to the foreground (in full screen mode).
Q) I'm in window mode and WoW's not coming up.
A) Unfortunately the console gxRestart command doesn't work in window mode. You'll have to use the alert sound.
Q) I'm in window mode and ATT's alerting when I'm not alt tabbed.
A) The Alt-Tab Detection is giving false positive. This usually happens to slow PCs or under heavy load (-10FPS). If this is causing problems, turn off Alt-Tab Detection and manually activate ATT by typing /att before you alt tab out.
Q) How does Alt-Tab Detection work?
A 1) When fullscreen WoW loses focus, frames stop updating. ATT checks if it's been 5+ seconds since the last frame update.
A 2) When windowmode WoW loses focus, FPS drops to -10, ATT checks if your FPS has dropped below 10 for over 5 seconds. this could give false positives on slow PCs.
Q) What does AFK Activate do?
A) AFK Activate is a old feature that activated ATT when you went /afk. Once you returned you could move/jump and ATT would deactivate. AFK Activate isn't needed now with Alt-Tab Detection.
Q) Will you add a toggle for the ingame alarm clock?
A) Currently not possible. When WoW loses focus frames stop firing OnUpdate. The alarm clock uses OnUpdate to fire the alarm.
Q) ATT caused WoW to crash and give error #132.
A) Checkout Blizzard's Error #132 page. If that doesn't help try enabling ATT's Sound Only option on.
Q) AddonUsage / TitanPerformance claims ATT is using lots of CPU usage, why?
A) The Ace3 libraries ATT uses are probably being used by other addons and ATT is getting the blame. Try downloading Ace3 separately from here and see if that helps.
Q) Are there alternatives to Alt-Tab Toggle?
A) Yes, LFGMaximizer, EventNotifier and AltTabber that I know of.

Discussion page: here

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CUDiLLA - German (deDE) translator
kdw112 - Korean (koKR) translator
fxpark - Korean (koKR) translator
KAPMA - Russian (ruRU) translator
zhTW - Traditional Chinese (zhTW) translator
Mars1491 - Traditional Chinese (zhTW) translator

Translators needed - apply localizations here.

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_ForgeUser173260
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Posted Jan 4, 2010
I *love* the concept of this. However, something I am not loving is that every time a flagged event comes up and I'm already in game, it puts me on my desktop for a second or two, and then back into the game. Is there any way to make it so that it only activates if you're actually alt-tabbed, rather than also whenever you're already in game? Until it's changed, unfortunately I have to get rid of the add-on.

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
Hello. Useful addon thx.
Sorry that I'm weak at English.

whiper received & Flight land & Ready Check is good work.
but, Toggle on enter random dungeon window have Client is Critical Error.

In this case, and relationships with ATT?
Or my pc&computer is unsteady?

Plz give me to advice.
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This application has encountered a critical error:

ERROR #132 (0x85100084) Fatal Exception
Program: D:\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe
Exception: 0xC0000005 (ACCESS_VIOLATION) at 001B:00000000

The instruction at "0x00000000" referenced memory at "0x00000000".
The memory could not be "read".

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
The simplest answer will be to enable Sound Only in ATT's settings.
Blizzard's error 132 support page is in the addon description.

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
Quick question, does the alert sound work with sound off? I normally play without it (music, Vent, etc) but I know DBM (for example) overrides your sound options and plays regardless. If this addon does something similar I can see it coming in handy. Otherwise I don't really see a point as most of these events already play a sound...

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
Yes the sound plays regardless of your Sound Effects settings. You'll need Sounds in Background enabled to hear it while alt-tabbed.

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
Excellent -- I'll give it a shot then!

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
Unfortunately the console gxRestart command doesn't work in window mode. You'll have to use the alert sound.

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
Does not work for me on Win7x64, windowed.
CVar 'maxFPSBk' is 30 for me and it does not bring WoW back into foreground for me, I'll try and enable all the debug statements and post what it does

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
Really liking the mod and I think it works great now. Thanks for fixing the errors. This is just what I needed to be able to tab out constantly yet not miss a thing =P

However, I'd like to make a request. Often during H-HoR and some of the other new ICC 5-mans, the party loses the tank or healer and everybody re-queues. It takes 10 min to find a new one but unless you have game sound on, you have no clue the new tank is there and that the party is rdy to continue. Could you add the option to have the mod force WoW to the front when a new member joins the party? And perhaps a separate one for when someone joins the raid? It could get tedious being forced back in every time your RL adds someone to a nearly empty 25-man raid, but it may be just the thing if you are waiting on 1-2 players.

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Posted Jan 3, 2010
let me know if the full party/raid in v1.2.1beta helps. I'm concerned about toggling on every new member.

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Posted Dec 31, 2009
well thing is i can do /console gxrestart without crashing coz when i type it the game already is fullscreen, but when it's in background it crashes :< guess the sound warning will have to do then :)

happy new year

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Posted Dec 31, 2009
@sam Try disabling ATT and typing /console gxrestart 5-10 times to see if that causes WoW to crash. If it's crashing w/o ATT then I can't do much about that. You could use the Sound Only to just get alerted on events. =/

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Posted Dec 30, 2009
i like the concept but 3 times out of 5 the addon;s gonna do "it's thing" it gives me error #132 crash insted of turning wow back fullscreen :<

windows 7 64bit, 4gb ram, 3.2ghz quad core cpu, nv9800gt gfx, english client

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Posted Dec 29, 2009
Smart use of the gxRestart command ;)

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Posted Dec 29, 2009
Indeed. It seems strange 3 alt-tab addons (LFGMaximizer, Alt+Tab Notifier & Alt-Tab Toggle) were all created on the 27th.
Though I remember a alt-tab addon way back in vanilla so the idea isn't new. :)

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This mod seems like a great idea, but at least for me, something is REALLY wrong. When I login in with this mod enabled, most of the default blizz UI comes back. As soon as I disable it, all my other mods work. It seems to conflict with Bartender4, Autobar, Sexymap, and Button Bin at least... all 4 of those cease to work while this one is enabled.

I've looked at a few other Alt-Tab mods out there but none have the versatility of yours so I hope this can be worked out.

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Posted Dec 29, 2009
The 4 addons you list use Ace3 libraries as does ATT so they do share something in common.
Can you turn off all addons except ATT then turn on 1 of the 4 addons at a time to confirm ATT is causing a problem.

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Posted Dec 30, 2009
I did as you asked and each time I enabled ONLY ATT and one of the 4 mods I mentioned before. None of them worked but this time I received the following error message each time with ATT and one of the 4 enabled (and BugSack as the point was to figure out what is wrong):

1x AceConfigRegistry-3.0-11:19: Cannot find a library instance of "CallbackHandler-1.0".
Alt-Tab_Toggle-v1.1.2beta\Libs\LibStub\LibStub.lua:38: in function `GetLibrary'
AceConfigRegistry-3.0-11:19: in main chunk

1x Alt-Tab_Toggle-v1.1.2beta\core.lua:13: Usage: EmbedLibrary(addon, libname, silent, offset): 'libname' - Library 'AceEvent-3.0' is not Embed capable
AceAddon-3.0-5:215: in function `EmbedLibrary'
AceAddon-3.0-5:191: in function `EmbedLibraries'
AceAddon-3.0-5:158: in function `NewAddon'
Alt-Tab_Toggle-v1.1.2beta\core.lua:13: in main chunk

Locals:
self = {
DisableAddon = <function> @ Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:566:
EnableAddon = <function> @ Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:532:
EmbedLibrary = <function> @ Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:206:
InitializeAddon = <function> @ Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:509:

Locals:
self =
{
NewLibrary = <function> @ Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\LibStub\LibStub.lua:20:
minors =
{}
minor = 2
IterateLibraries = <function> @ Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\LibStub\LibStub.lua:46:
GetLibrary = <function> @ Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\LibStub\LibStub.lua:36:
libs =
{}
}
major = "CallbackHandler-1.0"
silent = nil

Dunno if any of that helps. I got a much simplier error through just Blizzard's default error message screen but even it was too long to copy and I couldn't copy/paste it. But i read enough of it to see it kept saying Alt-Tabber and Ace over and over again.

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Posted Dec 30, 2009
Thank you JLBurnett04. You helped me find a bug in the way I uploaded the addon to WoWAce/curse. The website adds the libraries into the zip so I didn't know it was placing CallbackHandler-1.0 in the wrong folder. I corrected the problem and v1.1.3beta should work for you.

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Posted Dec 30, 2009
Unfortunately... more:

Date: 2009-12-30 23:07:25
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: AceLocale-3.0: Alt-Tab Toggle: Missing entry for 'Role check'
Debug:
...\Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\AceLocale-3.0\AceLocale-3.0.lua:31:
...\Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\AceLocale-3.0\AceLocale-3.0.lua:29
Alt-Tab_Toggle\core.lua:349: ?()
...gle\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147:
...gle\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:13: ?()
...gle\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
...ns\Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120:
...ns\Alt-Tab_Toggle\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119

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