When using Alt-Tab to switch between Windows applications, TinyTerm is not always active when you return to it. You have to click on the TinyTERM window to make it active.

This is a focus problem. Alt-Tab is returning system focus to tt.exe, which is the application that runs TinyTERM. What it’s not doing is returning focus to the ActiveX control that makes up the actual emulator.

This is a Windows peculiarity. The tt.exe application is really just a wrapper around the ActiveX control. It allows CenTE.ocx to run by itself, instead of in a Web browser for example. When Windows tracks the application, it normally only sees tt.exe, and so that’s where it returns focus. It’s not seeing the ActiveX piece by itself, so it doesn’t always get the focus in the right place. Unfortunately, there’s no programming we can do in TinyTERM to change that Windows behavior.

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