On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Ari Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Dennis Schridde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Samstag, 29. März 2008 21:09:43 schrieb Ari Johnson: > > > > > I have brought this up before, but I really think something should be > > > done. However, I'd rather get some agreement on the matter before > > > committing any changes. > > > > > > Warzone currently pauses everything when it loses focus. This has two > > > shortcomings: > > Pause on focusloss was added mainly on request by laptop users, who > wanted to > > save battery time. (And I think I discovered abadoned code at that same > > time.) > > So it is definitely not necessary that WZ pauses on focus loss, just > > an "optimisation". > > As long as we can achieve the same (or a similar) effect with something > else, > > I would be completely happy with it. > > > > > > > 1. Some people (such as myself) likely want to be able to play with > > > Warzone in a window and, for instance, let their tanks drive across > > > the map in the background while they talk on IM or work on something. > > > If the game pauses when it's not the foreground window, this doesn't > > > work. > > > > > > 2. Warzone doesn't just pause the gameplay, but it pauses everything > > > else when it is in the background. This includes the menu. To see > > > what I mean, run Warzone in a window and, as soon as it creates the > > > window, change to another application while it loads. The loading bar > > > will run until it is done loading and then appear to lock up, until > > > you give focus back to Warzone. Once you do that, the menu will > > > display. Any argument in favor of #1 being correct behavior > > > notwithstanding, this is simply wrong. > > > > > > What I propose is this: > > > > > > 1. Fix #2 above. There is no justification for the game doing that. > > > 2. Provide an option to let the user select from three modes when the > > > game is in the background: > > > a) Pause and mute > > > b) Mute only > > > c) Neither pause nor mute > > > > > > This should let everyone be happy. Any thoughts? > > Proposal/issue 1 is fixed by proposal 2? > > Not quite. Issue #2 should be fixed either way. The game should > never pause when there is not actually gameplay in progress, unless > the menu loop burns laptop batteries the same as the game does, but > that sounds like a bug in the menu loop if that's what happening. > > Issue #1 requires a separate fix. I like the pause-on-focus-loss > feature, but I would prefer to be able to turn it off and also to > select a mute-sounds-but-keep-playing option. >
I see that r4421 on trunk made a change related to this. How hard would it be to include this in the configuration menus? Also, does this change fix the bug in issue #2? _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
