Sometimes Alt gets stuck about altdrag HOT 6 OPEN

This has happened to me a few times, and I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it.

One thing you can do is to press the Esc key. If AltDrag detects that the Esc key is pressed, it will stop everything it is currently doing and reset its state.

If someone can find a 100% consistent way to reproduce this bug, let me know. I need to be able to reproduce it to find a good solution.

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If someone can find a 100% consistent way to reproduce this bug, let me know. I need to be able to reproduce it to find a good solution.

Understandable. Unfortunately, i too have no idea how or why it happens.

When you say "Press Esc", i assume you mean anywhere in Windows, in any application. AltDrag does not need to have the focus, right?

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AltDrag does not need to have the focus, right?

Correct. You can try it out by dragging a window and then hitting Esc. AltDrag should stop the dragging immediately.

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Thanks for the info. Very useful. I'd like to mention here something i hadn't realized until now. Alt+Esc is a Windows keystroke which switches between open windows (like Alt + Tab) without showing the preview window, so if you're moving something with AltDrag and press Esc while Alt is down, the movement operation IS cancelled but the previously dragged window is also put into background. I thought it was a bug at first! :)

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I decided to not cancel the Esc keypress from being sent, simply because there is a chance I might change the behavior of another program. Every time you press Esc, AltDrag resets its state, even if it's not really being used. So I simply decided not to add any logic there to block the keypress because hopefully you will not need to use it that much. :)

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Definitely not 100% the reason, but I've often noticed it getting stuck after accidentally maximizing a window via alt + double-click.

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