Chat messages stop updating when the window is minimized.

[Zerosan]

Operating system: Windows 10 Professional
Latest version of ChatGameFontificator as of 08.09.2018

It seems that the chat windows is not updated when it's minimized.

I have it embedded using window capture in streamlabs obs.

[GlitchCog]

This behavior is related to the Java Swing GUI library. The Fontificator updates the chat by overriding the Component.paint(Graphics) method, which is the generally accepted technique for drawing stuff on a JFrame window. But this method is only called while the window needs to be drawn, and in its minimized state, the window doesn't need to be drawn.

But I agree it is annoying to have to keep the window displayed for it to work, especially when screen realestate is at a premium. As a workaround, you should be able to move the Chat Display window to the bottom of the screen such that it mostly hangs off the visible window but remains unminimized. Also, it may be operating system dependent, but the act of minimizing a window probably also prevents it from being captured by streaming software.

I'll experiment a little to see if there is something I can do to fix this though. Maybe I'll be able to find some way to keep the paint method being called while minimized.