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Base environment for Red Eclipse and associated source files.
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Window not "responding" when map loads #136

Closed acerspyro closed 9 years ago

acerspyro commented 9 years ago

On Windows, when a map is loading and you click, Windows will say that the window is not answering when it isn't. It is also impossible to alt-tab while the map is loading, doing so shows the taskbar, but other windows are covered by Red Eclipse.

shirepirate commented 9 years ago

think that's a fairly common occurance in Windows when an application is at high CPU usage. 1.4.5 did the same thing. other games also do the same thing during loading times

Croydon commented 9 years ago

Yes, a lot of applications do this. However it's still bad practice to block the whole OS and force a specific behaviour on the user. Don't do this. At Inexor we will make the loading screens responsive too. https://github.com/inexor-game/code/issues/106

freezurbern commented 9 years ago

I do not experience this issue. My Red Eclipse (6d8e385988748df5679ab826991d590e8ca08bb4) loads smoothly and clicking does nothing. No Windows GUIs appear for me. No alt-tabbing is a valid complaint, however.

qreeves commented 9 years ago

The game already tries to keep the message queue alive, but this can only really be solved by multi threading. Won't fix.

qreeves commented 9 years ago

@Croydon Red Eclipse isn't your project, so don't tell us what to do. Shameless attempt at advertising your project.

acerspyro commented 9 years ago

Rekt.

Croydon commented 9 years ago

Sorry, if it's sounded like that. I didn't try to command you in any way. I just have a strong opinion at this point and I think it shouldn't be this way. It's of course totally up to you.

qreeves commented 9 years ago

The point is, nobody is going to bother to add thread support to the entire rendering and processing pipelines just for this issue.