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Author Topic: Must close to play games  (Read 8308 times)

JayCaldwell

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Must close to play games
« on: May 18, 2008, 10:19 AM »
I have to close the program to play games in full screen mode.

Is there a way to make certain programs exempt from the restrictions of desktop coral?

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Re: Must close to play games
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2008, 02:11 PM »
there is no way to do that, BUT it could be possible to:
1) make it easy to manually disable/re-enable desktop coral temporarily.
2) make desktop coral detect when a full screen app starts and disable itself automatically when it does.

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Re: Must close to play games
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2008, 05:04 PM »
There's got to be a way!!

I also use MobyDock DX. One of it's features is to stay on top of everything, but it doesn't interfere with full screen games.

I don't know anything about program coding, but I'm assuming it's possible for you to look into their code to see how that works. As long as that's not illegal!

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Re: Must close to play games
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2008, 08:28 AM »
Well i can take a look at it and see if there is any clue as to how they decided to handle the problem.

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Re: Must close to play games
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2008, 09:26 AM »
Apparently I was wrong. At first I thought there was a problem because it was glitchy at first, but once the game was fully loaded it worked fine. So it looks like its working fine...good job.

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Re: Must close to play games
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2008, 12:34 AM »
my favorite kind of bug reports.. the kind that fix themselves :)