#40 --skipsec

[Tirsa Poppins]

-skipsec is a very handy switch, especially with long demos. In some cases, though, I wish there were yet another switch, --skipsec (the extra dash to denote reversal). E.g., "--skipsec 5" would skip to five seconds before the end.

This would be useful to observe how the demo ended without having to calculate precise time for -skipsec; and this way the switch could be incorporated in file associations, to be used in conjunction with -auto with any demo, regardless of its length.

If the value specified after --skipsec exceeds the demo length, then prBoom+ would simply play the demo from the beginning, possibly with a pop-up saying something like "--skipsec value > demo length" (this could also go into stdout.txt).

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I agree that this ability would be very useful indeed.

[Andrey Budko]

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Done.

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Revision: 2783
Author: entryway
Date: 16:09:20, 30 Jul 2008.
Message:
Ability to use negative numbers with -skipsec switch. "-skipsec -5" will skip to five seconds before the end.
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Modified : /branches/prboom-plus-24/prboom2/src/e6y.c
Modified : /branches/prboom-plus-24/prboom2/src/e6y.h
Modified : /branches/prboom-plus-24/prboom2/src/g_game.c