Re: [Algorithms] Can I do this?

[jason w. <jas...@po...>]

Bad.. bad.. bad..

you quickly need to get out of the frame of mind that you and your program
know what to do better than the user. the role of your program is to be
subserviant to the users wishes and demands.

picture this.. I'm a 28.8k modem user, downloaded the lastest 250+meg demo
in the background.. I fire up your game to pass the time, since the download
will take all day. Your game spots my "save as" as a resource hog because it
keeps doing lots of GDI stuff to make the little animation go on, and so on.
So, it sends a WM_QUIT to it, and my Save As prompted dies, leaving me with
nothing to show for the last 5 hours my download ran.

at this point, i'd do 3 things: uninstall your game, tell every website in
the universe just how crappy it is, and then research the feasability of
comming and killing you. after all, I could accomplish all that in less time
than it'll take me to redownload 1/2 of that danged demo.

now, as for things useful.. what you *can* do is inform the user.. if you're
really worried about the situation, throw up a error or a simple notices
that says "it appears system resources are low due to many background
applications. please close some of them and running mygame.exe again for
better performance."

then the user knows what's going on, and can make the call.