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Offline vonduus

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alt tab help please
« on: October 03, 2010, 12:51:33 am »
I am using alt-tab a lot. But it is a fact that unity does not like alt-tab: When i go back in after alt-tabbing out, the game behaves very erratically (I cannot select ships nor constructors). This is a serious problem to me, as I never think of alt-tabbing, I just do it :-[. I have had to restart more than five times today, due to mindless alt-tabbing.

Someone mentioned some time ago in the unity port thread that I could play in windowed mode, using the same resolution as my monitors native resolution, and then let some utility center the window (to get rid of the window borders). But if I ask the game to use windowed mode 1680x1050, it produces a screen that is slightly smaller than 1680x1050. So even if I had a window-centering utility, the game wouldn't let me make a window that is exactly the size of my screen.

Does anyone know a work-around to this problem? Or will I have to go back to drill camp and unlearn this deeply seated habit?
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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2010, 12:52:07 am »
All you have to do is tap alt when you come back if it does that...
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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2010, 12:54:04 am »
aye, a number of games have this issue - the problem is, the game recognizes you press alt, but not that you press tab (alt tab is a windows function -> windows catches it first) and never realizes you unpress alt either
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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2010, 01:17:12 am »
Ah, great, thanks a lot, both of you. :)
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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2010, 01:21:57 am »
of note - what does 'alt' do? in ai war terms, when does having alt pressed matter?
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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2010, 01:41:45 am »
Sure thing!

As far as alt goes, it does a variety of things: shows the move/attack lines, activates attack move mode, makes you build more of a ship on click, and a few others.  Not sure why it would cause any interference with clicking...
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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2010, 01:56:50 am »
alt + leftclick does not allow for selection in slimdx version either. Probably just never came up, thus never was 'fixed'

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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2010, 09:10:22 pm »
Isn't alt + Left-click supposed to be "Deselect Unit"? I use it sometimes when I want to pick all my units except a certain type. That would explain why you can't select something with it.

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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2010, 04:59:35 pm »
That would do it!  So not even a bug, then.
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Re: alt tab help please
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2010, 05:00:02 pm »
what do you know! its a feature!  ;D
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« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2010, 05:08:05 pm »
 ;D
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