Re: Pingus -bugs?- under windows...

[Alberto Curro]

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> >   As commented above, this could be only for windows version, it
> > will not break the portability code (maybe a few more #ifdef WIN32
> > clauses, but not more, no?), and it will help us to improve sound
> > support as we will receive _real_ crashes related to sound /
> > music. Also, some new exceptions to handle these situations will
> > give us the opportunity to tell user "hey, it seems you have
> > troubles with sound in the game... try adding --nosound to your app
> > link?)
>
> BTW. What about a little starter-app for Pingus under Windows, like
> all those commercial games have? Since --nosound is a rather unusual
> thing for Win32 people a little starter GUI where they can set these
> flags would be cool.

  Hey!, a good idea. It's not so difficult to implement and very elegant. It's 
true the most windows users even unknown what is a command parameter. Uhm, 
maybe even saving the last parameters used in the registry? 


> >    About this point, I've played today in my father's PC with a new
> > game, Far Scape, or something by the way.. it's not a really good
> > game, but I saw some features I would like to have in some other
> > games... one of these, no full screen intros, only
> > windows... smaller, and with an 'ok' button; well though, I consider
> > it's better idea than the lemmings's full introductory screens, and
> > we won't need to have different images for the intros.
>
> Not sure if I understand that. You mean instead of having a seperate
> start-screen for a level, just have a small window in the worldmap
> which shows the level details?

 Yes, no start-screen... when the level is loaded, just open a window showing 
the info for the level (some type of minimum history, how many penguins to 
save, how many starting penguins, etc.)... This is easier and cleaner than a 
start-screen, as we have not to add an image, etc., etc. Just text, and an ok 
button (maybe also a 'cancel' one) to start the level...

  what you think about?


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> BTW. CVS will undergo some major reorganisation in the next few days,
> so don't update your CVS copy at the moment.
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