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Win32 Window Focus Prevention Deep Dive (www.youtube.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This (Windows employing different methods to prevent users from writing programs that programmatically change application focus) has been an ongoing struggle for me for the better part of 3 years.

I finally made what feels like some significant progress this past week.

If you've ever obsessively gone deep down into a hole trying to understand and wrangle weird OS-level behaviors before, you might enjoy this video and feel a vicarious sense of victory :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Well, here's hoping you land on your feet!