Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Changes for today

Alt-Tabbing out from DirectQ now restores your OS gamma properly. I still haven't addressed the sound yet, but that's definitely going to happen too. DirectQ hasn't been as friendly towards frequent Alt-Tabbers as it could have been in the past, so it's nice to get that done.

A bug has been spotted in Nehahra and other mods that use custom menu pics with additional options in them. This is quite an evil and hacky thing for a mod to do, as it effectively ties the mod into a specific engine. I don't know if a general purpose solution is going to be easily available yet. In Neharha's defence it does date from an earlier time, but it's still legacy mess that needs to be coped with.

I've restored the old full-disk scan method if DirectQ is run from a folder that doesn't contain your game files. This time it asks your permission before doing a full scan.

It's important that people understand that this is only a third-line fallback, not default behaviour every time. Some people got their jollies from assuming the worst last time I talked about this - let's see if it happens again.

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