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General / Re: [DOWNLOAD v0.1] Attract True Black - Application
« on: March 29, 2017, 04:30:12 PM »
I get the spinner every time I launch GroovyMame d3d9ex, I think it's because it initialises the fullscreen in a bit different way.
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General / [DOWNLOAD v0.3] Attract True Black - Application
« on: March 29, 2017, 04:17:49 PM »
Attract True Black v0.3
I wrote this application for my own use as I was annoyed how the transitions look in Attract Mode when you launch or exit a game. You got random flashes and a mouse spinner destroying the pleasure of staring at the pure darkness while the game is loading.
Since you guys like experimenting I thought I will share it with you.
What does this app do?
It sits in the system tray waiting for Attract Mode to be launched, then it:
- kills the desktop and all open explorer windows
- sets all the mouse pointers to the transparent one embedded in ATB
- displays a black borderless window to be sure nothing leaks through
When you exit Attract Mode:
- cursors are restored
- desktop is back
- black borderless window is hidden
Remember, I wrote this in a few hours, so I'm not responsible for any mental damage any potential bugs might caused you like for example:
- I've lost all my opened explorer windows, and I can't be bothered to open them again
- my cursors are gone and I had to restore them in the mouse properties window using a keyboard
- my screen is black and I don't know how to use either a task manager or alt tab.
You have been warned, happy experimenting
And remember, set your screen mode to fullscreen or borderless, or you will get a black screen when you launch AM.
Changelog:
02/01/2018 - fixed a bug that resulted in ATB not restoring mouse pointers occasionally.
03/01/2018 - fixed ATB sitting on top of the AM
Please note that it is only working with Window (no border) mode
DOWNLOAD:
I wrote this application for my own use as I was annoyed how the transitions look in Attract Mode when you launch or exit a game. You got random flashes and a mouse spinner destroying the pleasure of staring at the pure darkness while the game is loading.
Since you guys like experimenting I thought I will share it with you.
What does this app do?
It sits in the system tray waiting for Attract Mode to be launched, then it:
- kills the desktop and all open explorer windows
- sets all the mouse pointers to the transparent one embedded in ATB
- displays a black borderless window to be sure nothing leaks through
When you exit Attract Mode:
- cursors are restored
- desktop is back
- black borderless window is hidden
Remember, I wrote this in a few hours, so I'm not responsible for any mental damage any potential bugs might caused you like for example:
- I've lost all my opened explorer windows, and I can't be bothered to open them again
- my cursors are gone and I had to restore them in the mouse properties window using a keyboard
- my screen is black and I don't know how to use either a task manager or alt tab.
You have been warned, happy experimenting
And remember, set your screen mode to fullscreen or borderless, or you will get a black screen when you launch AM.
Changelog:
02/01/2018 - fixed a bug that resulted in ATB not restoring mouse pointers occasionally.
03/01/2018 - fixed ATB sitting on top of the AM
Please note that it is only working with Window (no border) mode
DOWNLOAD:
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Scripting / Re: How to destroy a variable or an object in Squirrel?
« on: March 24, 2017, 07:10:13 PM »you can't destroy attractmode objects from a script after they are created. best thing to do is to set their visible attribute to false and just stop using them (or reuse them for something else)
cheers
I did as you suggested, thanks.
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Themes / Re: SILKY Theme v0.5 beta
« on: March 24, 2017, 04:07:47 PM »can someone upload to another host?
6h of waiting to start download in Mega is a pain in the ass!
It's now attached to the post, so you should have no problems downloading.
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Scripting / Re: How to destroy a variable or an object in Squirrel?
« on: March 22, 2017, 02:36:21 PM »
Assigning a variable to null does work as I cannot access it anymore, but the object does not disappear from the screen. I was trying to wipe it from the fe.obj table, but using .find() throws an error
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Themes / Re: SILKY Theme v0.5 beta
« on: March 22, 2017, 10:37:39 AM »
I've removed the shadows in my first beta. If you fancy a more rounded version I can add a switch to the layout config. Let me know.
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Themes / Re: SILKY Theme v0.5 beta
« on: March 22, 2017, 10:32:02 AM »
First beta version released. In case of any problems or questions just write here.
https://mega.nz/#!boNUAYaC!2QbolJ6HSfhDRijFqUHoq5chy-7A3NXNtYRz1PpJpjo
https://mega.nz/#!boNUAYaC!2QbolJ6HSfhDRijFqUHoq5chy-7A3NXNtYRz1PpJpjo
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Scripting / How to destroy a variable or an object in Squirrel?
« on: March 22, 2017, 09:50:43 AM »
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Scripting / Re: Is there a way to save layout config from the script?
« on: March 20, 2017, 04:41:53 PM »
I don't thing It will change anything since every layout can do whatever it wants with that array, without a clear guideline of how to store the values there my data will most likely be deleted.
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Scripting / Re: Is there a way to save layout config from the script?
« on: March 20, 2017, 03:53:59 PM »
Ok, there is one non-volatile table "fe.nv" which I could use, but as far I understand it right it's shared across all layouts, so the data stored in it can be wiped by another layout, or maybe I'm not understanding it properly?
There is no information of how to use it. Any input will be appreciated.
There is no information of how to use it. Any input will be appreciated.
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Scripting / Is there a way to save layout config from the script?
« on: March 20, 2017, 03:14:12 PM »
I can't believe there is no alternative to get_config() like set_config().
Is there any other way of storing a permanent value from the script which can be recovered next time you run AM.
Is there any other way of storing a permanent value from the script which can be recovered next time you run AM.
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General / Nightlies link dead?
« on: March 19, 2017, 10:02:31 AM »
Is it only me or the site with nightlies dead to everyone?
https://build.btolab.com/project/attractmode/
https://build.btolab.com/project/attractmode/
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General / Re: Simplified Windows native compile w/ MSYS2
« on: March 19, 2017, 09:12:48 AM »
Here's another set of errors:
Anyone? please, help, or end my suffering
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oomek@ubuntu:~/Documents/attract-master$ make -j 3 CROSS=1 TOOLCHAIN=x86_64-w64-mingw32.static WINDOWS_STATIC=1
Package sfml-system was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sfml-system.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'sfml-system', required by 'world', not found
Package 'sfml-window', required by 'world', not found
Package 'sfml-graphics', required by 'world', not found
Package 'sfml-network', required by 'world', not found
Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'freetype2', required by 'world', not found
Package 'libavformat', required by 'world', not found
Package 'libavcodec', required by 'world', not found
Package 'libavutil', required by 'world', not found
Package 'libswscale', required by 'world', not found
Package 'openal', required by 'world', not found
Anyone? please, help, or end my suffering
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General / Re: Simplified Windows native compile w/ MSYS2
« on: March 19, 2017, 02:57:25 AM »
Ok , I forgot to set the PATH to MXE and now I've got another error:
pkgconf is located in
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/opt/mxe/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-pkg-config: 2: exec: /home/oomek/Documents/mxe/usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/pkgconf: not found
pkgconf is located in
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/opt/mxe/usr/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/How do I make the compiler to look there for it?