Flash-based legacy games switch to windowed mode on ESC instead of quitting

[Ludonaut]

Both Canabalt and X-Bones can't quit-on-ESC anymore, but can still be killed by idle timeouts and hold-quit-for-three-seconds force-kills.

Definitely not breaking anything, just weird and ugly to people who don't know about force kills. :thinking:

[aaronklaassen]

Yeah I'm not sure we have a real solution for this - it's just old Flash being a old pain in the ass. That's why they're on a separate playlist.

If there's some way to fix it I'd really like to - both Canabalt and X-bones are great arcade games.

[mrmwiebe]

Could be done with a custom AHK script. Really gotta get some sort of thing into the metadata that says what script to use...hmmm

[aaronklaassen]

@mrmwiebe Oh okay. Yeah. I was going to hold off on custom AHK until v2.1 (ie an implementation that would allow arbitrary keybindings), but if we could get a minimal version running to fix this bug we could expand it later.

[mrmwiebe]

@aaronklaassen could we add a metadata field that's something like "customAHK" with a string for now? Then i can just have a "flash" template that the launcher runs.

[aaronklaassen]

@mrmwiebe How about

{
  "title": "A Great Game",
  "foo": "bar",
  // other stuff
  "keys": {
    "template": "flash", // "default", "legacy", "custom", etc
    // and then future custom stuff goes here someday
  }
}

[mrmwiebe]

So the functionality is there, just need it to be implemented on the Network side so that the proper JSON is in place. 278a153

[aaronklaassen]

@mrmwiebe Yep the API side is already done: https://github.com/winnitron/winnitron_reborn/pull/77