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I play a video in VLC in skinned mode. I toggle to the Desktop with WIN+D. I select VLC with Alt+Tab again. -> VLC is on top, video is playing, but VLC doesn't get focus (Window Spy shows no active Window) -> hotkeys don't work. -> There's no way to quit VLC with Ctrl+Q, I have to take the mouse and...

Hi,
sorry for posting in an old thread, but nice to hear that I'm not the only one who has this problem.
I just filed in a bug report about this issue.
Is there a similar workaround for VB to the one for C++ form the link provided by RSATom?

Hello,

I want to have VLC integrated in a Windows Form. As the ActiveX plugin is broken since VLC 2.0.0 I have to use vlclib.
The problem is I have no idea how to make this.
Can anybody help me and tell me what I have to do to use vlclib in my Visual C++ Windows Form?

Regards,
Tintifax

I just tried the nightly build "vlc-2.2.0-20131027-0007" -> not solved yet. OT: The ActiveX plugin is broken too. Doesn't work in VB. Time to file in two bug reports! Update: I tried many different old Versions of VLC from the Archive and found out that 1) The $*-Variables are broken since...

Hi, I want to integrate VLC in a Windows-form. I use Visual Basic 2010 Express on Windows 7 32Bit. In the VB-Project I added the "VLC ActiveX Plugin and IE Web Plugin v2" to the Toolbox. When I drag this plugin from the toolbox to the form I get the error (translated to english) something ...

Well, after following the instructions in your link the issue still persists. I reset the preferences, I installed the nightly build vlc-2.1.1-20131024-0208-win32.exe, I searched the list of known bugs and couldn't find any. But before sending a real bug report I would like to know if others can rep...

I think he means that the functionality to use variables like $N for the filename is broken in VLC2.1. I just tried to make snapshots from a video and changed the snapshot-prefix to $N so the snapshot-files are named after the video. But instead of something like "Videofilename.png" I got ...

Hi!

Ok, so could anyone explain why this doesn't work
or simply tell us if it will work in further releases?
Would be a nice feature!