Ari Johnson schreef: > 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: >>>> 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?
Nope, it doesn't fix issue #2. It addresses #1 though. -- Giel
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