weird issue with the pause button on mame

[TheMadZymurgist]

I'm in the process of getting my long idle mame cabinet upgraded and back in working order.   I've got a new PC running  windows 7 (don't ask what the old PC was running).

Mame has been upgraded from 0.200 to 0.219
Attract Mode has been upgraded from 2.3 to 2.6

When I start any game,  and then press the pause button, my mame game window shrinks and becomes non-responsive.

On the attract mode console I see the following message:

! Unexpectedly lost focus to:  attract-console.exe (5528 {or whatever the process ID number is})

I did not have this issue with Attract 2.3, so I obviously have either mis-configured something (although I have no idea what) or there is a bug somewhere.

When I run the same game with the same mame command line arguments (while not using AM), the pause button works correctly, so I think AM is involved in this problem somehow.

[GrizzlyTnT]

Just a Shot in the dark from me here. Did you run it with dual monitors? Its one of the features from Windows 7. Maybe check it out, in the resolution settings. I got my one to "Just use first monitor" and everything works fine.