RE: [GD-Windows] os version

[Matt D. <ma...@co...>]

I must say I completely agree with Rich.  I am so tired of games that crash
when I try to Alt-TAB to another application like my mail client.  Well done
to games like System Shock 2 and Diablo II that pause the game automatically
and handle it properly.  In Diablo II I occasionally press TAB (for the map)
and ALT (for seeing items) at the same time and switch out, but since the
game is paused its harmless and much more preferable to not being able to
task switch or, even worse, to crashing.  If I really didn't like it, I
could redefine the controls so I didn't have to use TAB anyway.


Matt Davies
Programmer, Confounding Factor
ma...@co...
www.confounding-factor.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: gam...@li...
> [mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Rich
> Sent: 12 February 2002 02:49
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] os version
>
>
>
> In article <001c01c1b368$4aab5e40$7f55533e@aurora>,
>     =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ignacio_Casta=F1o?= <cas...@ya...>  writes:
>
> > Hmm... I just want to disable Alt+tab and other task switching keys,
>
> Windows is not a Console system.  You don't own the OS, the user owns
> the OS.  Just deal with task switching and don't bother coding all
> kinds of buggy OS version code.  If the user wants to task switch away
> from your application, who are you to defy the user?
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