Bug: Fullscreen mode

[wogan]

I've switched dyson to full screen mode, but screenshots in this mode don't work (all that gets sent to the clipboard is the windowed Dyson box with the Loading screen [link]). This is one problem - the other being that I can't switch back out of fullscreen mode.

No matter whether I do it ingame or not, running as admin or not, I uncheck the box to bring it out of fullscreen mode, it pops back into a box as it should, and when I click "Done":



Any ideas?

[crazeh.monkeh]

Which version of Vista are you using again?
Because it works fine on my Home Premium with service pack 1...

Also, how are you doing your screen shots?

[wogan]

I'm using Vista Business SP1, which should be exactly the same. The only difference between the Vista versions is the software that come pre-installed.

And I'm trying to use Printscreen.

[crazeh.monkeh]

I'm not getting either of these problems... I tried maximizing in and out of game, and I tried taking screen captures several different ways including single window and full screen print screens and they always showed the actual game just like they should...

For maximizing... what is your screen resolution set to? It might be trying to change your resolution or something

[wogan]

For maximizing... what is your screen resolution set to? It might be trying to change your resolution or something

It can't be that - it's only crashing when trying to save the preference for being windowed. It does actually retreat into a box just fine.

My current resolution is 1440x900 (widescreen)

[crazeh.monkeh]

so it doesn't happen until you hit Done? And you are running it as an admin, so it isn't a write problem... Is it only when going from Full to Windowed, or either way?

[Alex]

Yeah that'll be the preference saving bug. I think your permissions thing might come in handy there Wogan.

[crazeh.monkeh]

well, but he is running as an Admin, so it shouldn't be a permissions problem. In vista if you run something as an admin it bypasses all of those restrictions.

[wogan]

A reinstall fixed it. Or at least, saving preferences while running as Admin. With regular permissions, it still fails.

There is a fix that will allow updates to the file for regular users. It involes creating a new permission setting on the user.settings file, adding yourself as an authorized user with Full Control:



If there's no way to automatically set this permission on installation, have you considered using the Registry to store those variables? I've never tried it myself, but it shouldn't involve setting funky IO permissions when you're compiling.

[crazeh.monkeh]

That would explain why I wasn't getting the error... I have it installed on my flash drive >.<

But I still don't get why a re-install fixed it...

[wogan]

But I still don't get why a re-install fixed it...

That might have been my fault >.> I was fiddling with file permissions earlier to try and get it to work, but I must have messed something up. Beyond recognition, at least

[crazeh.monkeh]

Lol. Maybe. Oh well, you fixed it. That's always what matters.

[wogan]

For now, yes, but what about the next user that tries playing it on Vista?