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#174 Visual cue that the emulator is paused or in break state

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nobody
4
2009-04-03
2009-03-09
SD Snatcher
No

Please add a visual cue that the emulator is paused or is in break state.

The break state could use a LED. To differentiate from the MSX's leds, it could be orange and even be on top of the screen instead of the bottom.

For the paused state, the cue could be shown in the window title. It can't be a led because sometimes we need to pause the emulator at the right place to then take a screenshot.

Discussion

  • Manuel Bilderbeek

    I've discussed this with mth and we propose to use the OSD to add icons that indicate states like these, like on a TV/VCR/DVDplayer:
    - mute
    - breaked
    - paused

    Wouter already made a proof of concept script for this once, showing a mute icon.

    All we need now is some icons that could be used for this and someone scripting them into the OSD.
    Furthermore, we need a way to make screenshots without these icons (e.g. when making a screenshot in the paused state, which is a very common scenario).

     
  • Manuel Bilderbeek

    • labels: --> General/misc
     
  • Wouter Vermaelen

    Implemented now (revision 9399). There are now OSD icons for 'pause', 'mute' and 'breaked'.

    Though the icons are drawn by me (and adjusted by Quibus) and they look ugly :-(
    I'm leaving this feature request open till we have decent icons.

     
  • Wouter Vermaelen

    • priority: 5 --> 4
     
  • Manuel Bilderbeek

    We have decent icons now (thanks David), closing this request.

     
  • Manuel Bilderbeek

    • status: open --> closed
     
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