RSS feed bug?
by Denis Linardic · in Torque Game Engine · 12/03/2005 (2:38 pm) · 5 replies
I am not quite sure it's a bug but if I click on Read more in main menu, torque closes down and GarageGames page opens, but torque aplication is still in memory and I have to kill it through Task Manager.
Is there some other way to restore running torque application that I am not aware of?
Is there some other way to restore running torque application that I am not aware of?
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#2
P4 2.4 Celeron
1 Gb Ram
ATI 9600 XT 256 MB
Is it possible to disable ALT+TAB or even better is it possible to shutdown TGE when engine screen is minimized?
12/06/2005 (12:58 am)
Windows XP Pro SP2 - Clean installP4 2.4 Celeron
1 Gb Ram
ATI 9600 XT 256 MB
Is it possible to disable ALT+TAB or even better is it possible to shutdown TGE when engine screen is minimized?
#3
The web page switch problem that Denis mentioned comes from the same bug that shows up when Alt-tab switching between apps. Fortunately, it only seems to occur in OpenGL mode. If you run Torque in D3D all the time, then you shouldn't have a problem. If you have to run in OpenGL, then you can avoid the problem by running in windowed mode exclusively. The switch bug only seems to happen when switching from an OpenGL fullscreen Torque app to anything else.
Unfortunately for me, my Torque apps run about 80 frames per second slower in D3D than they do in OpenGL on my laptop. And since there are no driver updates for my vid subsystem (GeForce Go 6800 Ultra) I'm stuck with OGL for the foreseeable future.
You can read more about the switching topic here:
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=36882
Also, I believe that Josh Ritter (Minions of Mirth/Prairie Games) may have fixed this problem. He mentions something like it in the bug-fix log of one of his old .plans:
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=8898
My guess is that Josh already has a solution for this. Maybe he can help us out. :)
Aaron E.
12/06/2005 (5:11 am)
Hi guys,The web page switch problem that Denis mentioned comes from the same bug that shows up when Alt-tab switching between apps. Fortunately, it only seems to occur in OpenGL mode. If you run Torque in D3D all the time, then you shouldn't have a problem. If you have to run in OpenGL, then you can avoid the problem by running in windowed mode exclusively. The switch bug only seems to happen when switching from an OpenGL fullscreen Torque app to anything else.
Unfortunately for me, my Torque apps run about 80 frames per second slower in D3D than they do in OpenGL on my laptop. And since there are no driver updates for my vid subsystem (GeForce Go 6800 Ultra) I'm stuck with OGL for the foreseeable future.
You can read more about the switching topic here:
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=36882
Also, I believe that Josh Ritter (Minions of Mirth/Prairie Games) may have fixed this problem. He mentions something like it in the bug-fix log of one of his old .plans:
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=8898
My guess is that Josh already has a solution for this. Maybe he can help us out. :)
Aaron E.
#4
If none of the suggestions above work for you, you could hack the code/script to force Torque into Windowed mode whenever a URL link or RSS line gets clicked. It doesn't sound like a good solution, but it's probably not too hard to do.
Aaron E.
[Edit: typo]
12/06/2005 (5:23 am)
Denis,If none of the suggestions above work for you, you could hack the code/script to force Torque into Windowed mode whenever a URL link or RSS line gets clicked. It doesn't sound like a good solution, but it's probably not too hard to do.
Aaron E.
[Edit: typo]
#5
I don't really need RSS feeds in my game, but I would like to disable ALT+TAB, or simply kill the TGE when user gets to the desktop. I can do that with outside app but I would rather solve that in TGE.
12/06/2005 (6:11 am)
Thanks for the replys guys.I don't really need RSS feeds in my game, but I would like to disable ALT+TAB, or simply kill the TGE when user gets to the desktop. I can do that with outside app but I would rather solve that in TGE.
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As far as I know this problem known to exists but no any ideas on how to fix it ...
Can you share with your PC configuration, so someone can find out where can be the problem?
As for some ppl (like me) - this problem never pop-ups.. I'm making a lot of "heavy" beta-tests of the engine ... but can't get this "bug" to appear.. so.. dunno. ..