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General => Feedback => Topic started by: Dersaidin on October 21, 2006, 03:52:49 am

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: Dersaidin on October 21, 2006, 03:52:49 am

I would like tremulous to have a built in minimizer.

Theres a lot of little 'minimizer' programs around that allow you to minimize a specific quake3 game by pressing a key combination like Ctrl + Shift + End to minimize and Ctrl + Shift + Home to maximize.

I know theres the Alt+enter, but that takes way too long. Minimizing with one of these minimizers will just make the window shrink from fullscreen down to nothing - just as fast as any other window would. No reloading everything. Just as fast to maximize.

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: Thorn on October 21, 2006, 04:12:37 am

If your on windows , simply get the latest version of the backport and press the windows key. :roll:

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: holyknight on October 21, 2006, 07:03:03 am

Quote from: "Thorn"

If your on windows , simply get the latest version of the backport and press the windows key. :roll:

it's really annoying when that happens, I can't get it back to normal. How do I do that?

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: Thorn on October 21, 2006, 07:37:34 am

Go down to t3h 1337 Taskbar and click on tremulous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: holyknight on October 21, 2006, 08:56:00 am

Quote from: "Thorn"

Go down to t3h 1337 Taskbar and click on tremulous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

Can't do that, the screen is frozen.
Also, when it isn't frozen, I can't move my mouse

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: Neo on October 21, 2006, 01:55:34 pm

Or just play the game windowed, you get a slight FPS hit but you can alt-tab to your heart's content.

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: Lava Croft on October 21, 2006, 03:13:36 pm

Quote from: "Neo"

Or just play the game windowed, you get a slight FPS hit but you can alt-tab to your heart's content.

Playing in windowed mode is a quick formula for failure. It is impossible to be really good in an FPS game in windowed mode. TJW's Tremulous backport allows for ALT-TABbing just fine.

http://trem.tjw.org/backport/

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: Neo on October 21, 2006, 05:37:54 pm

Not really, if you suck in windowed mode then you'll still suck in full screen mode. It doesn't alter skill levels.

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: Paradox on October 21, 2006, 08:57:21 pm

If you have windows, and the latest version of TJW's backport, open up your autogen.cfg file, and look for/add the string win_allowAltTab and change it from 0 to 1.

Next time you boot trem up, you can press alt tab to switch through windows.

You cant edit this from in game, it is read only.

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: tjw on October 25, 2006, 01:46:48 am

Quote from: "Paradox"

If you have windows, and the latest version of TJW's backport, open up your autogen.cfg file, and look for/add the string win_allowAltTab and change it from 0 to 1.

Next time you boot trem up, you can press alt tab to switch through windows.

You cant edit this from in game, it is read only.

No need to edit any files.  Just do:

Code: [Select]


/win_allowAltTab 1
/vid_restart


The value will be automatically written to your autogenerated config.

Title: Built in minimizer
Post by: Quaoar on October 28, 2006, 09:52:41 pm

What are you doing playing Tremulous at work anyway?