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Gathering Companion App For FFXIV
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Popup does not show in full screen or borderless window mode #17

Open Th3MadHatter opened 8 years ago

Th3MadHatter commented 8 years ago

For some reason the popup is not showing up while in full screen mode on Win 7 64bit. Once I minimize the window all the popups have just been stacking up there so is it possible to force show the popup while in full screen/borderless mode?

manbeardgames commented 8 years ago

What is in full screen? FFXIV? DiscerningEye can't do full screen so in going to assume the game is what you mean.

When games go full screen there are two types, or rather modes, for this. The first is "desktop" mode, which is what you see in borderless windowed mode. This is really nothing more than making the window as big as your resolution can handle and taking off the window borders.

The other mode is "exclusive" full screen. This is what most games have used for years for full screen, it exclusively takes over the screen. In this mode, things like popups from the notification bar would not be shown since the game has taken exclusive on your screen.

If you're in borderless mode, they should be showing, this is how I and many others i know play.

The notification popups come form the Windows Taskbar. The code itself just pushes a message to into show for a short amount of time and then they go away. Can you post a screenshot of them stacking up? This is not the behavior it's programmed to do, nor I seen it do this in any testing.

Given that they are stacking and that they are not showing, if you are in borderless and not exclusive full screen, this is leading me to think it could be something local on your side with taskbar notification settings as these are managed by your os

Th3MadHatter commented 8 years ago

Yea i figured it wouldn't show up in full screen unless you add an overlay but it doesn't work in borderless for me either! That's what made it a bit O.o for me because they should just pop up. The only way I could get them to show was in horrible bordered window mode.... which isn't ideal.

As for the stacking, yeah sure I guess, I run multiple python windows and other programs on the background giving me messages that stack so that might cause it honestly, unless I care about the information I just hide the icon and reveal notifications again and it fixes itself so it isn't a real bother and most likely an exclusive issue for me because it mixes in between the other notifications.

The major bother is that it DOESN'T seen to show up in borderless windowed mode.. which is really strange! And since the voice module used right now (already an issue mentioned I noticed) is pretty horrible I have my text repeat the name and zone in various different text strings multiple times in which its sometimes clearer then the other. (It seems to seriously have an issue with Yellow ores in Coerthas Western Highlands, haha seriously its more like "what did she say?")