Always on Top will lose effect on potplayer after the player finishs playing and plays another video file

[GamerNoTitle]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.56.2

Running as admin

• Yes

Area(s) with issue?

Always on Top

Steps to reproduce

• Open Potplayer
• Fill the playlist with more than 1 file
• Play one of them

✔️ Expected Behavior

After the first one finished, the Potplayer will play another file and Always on Top still has its effection.

❌ Actual Behavior

After the first one finished, the Potplayer will play another file but Always on Top will lose effect although the retangle is still diaplaying.

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Actual Behavior Preview

bandicam.2022-03-30.10-23-09-205.mp4

Other Software

No response

[franky920920]

Your video isn't playing, please re-upload it. Thank you! /needinfo

[GamerNoTitle]

The video is here ↓

160738417-2031f59d-d8e5-45f1-b7de-dc00b905f0a3.mp4

If this still doesn't work, you can find the video on here

https://gamernotitle-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/admin_share4nothing_ml/EV62gbRK6TlKhfGPSqU1ps8BPtHtBe94SqpkjzTwiJ6xKw?e=r4We1R

[jaimecbernardo]

This might be fixed in #17392
Let's re-test when 0.57.2 gets released.

[SeraphimaZykova]

The app manages the TOPMOST state itself and resets it at some moment. We can't do much about it. Checking if the flag is still applied in the infinite loop will cause too much unnecessary work and increase CPU load.

[GamerNoTitle]

Okay i got it, thank you.

[Jay-o-Way]

The app manages the TOPMOST state itself and resets it at some moment. We can't do much about it. Checking if the flag is still applied in the infinite loop will cause too much unnecessary work and increase CPU load.

So, does that mean wont-fix?

[SeraphimaZykova]

So, does that mean wont-fix?

We can keep it open as a feature request and also to close duplicates against this issue if they appear.

[SeraphimaZykova]

/dup of #19168

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!