Problem with Window Mode on Mac

[Baldrik3505]

Hi,

If I switch to using Window Mode (e.g. not Full Screen or Borderless), then it doesn't seem to take the Main Mac Menu Bar Hieght into account so the bottom in the window is not visible! This is a real pain, has anyone seen this and got a workaround?

Thanks
Dave

 

[Peko?]

Set the resolution to something with a smaller height.

 

[Baldrik3505]

I tried that, but it shirks down the whole window to a much smaller size. It seems that the game can't handle scaling other than what the Screen Resolutions, so it make a window fit with the menu bar won't work. What does work if you have 2 monitors is to switch the Menu Bar from the screen you want to play on. At least now I can access other apps while playing.

All the Best
Dave

 

[Baldrik3505]

I spoke too soon, that doesn't work either because the don't take into account the Window Title Bar.

This totally sucks because I can't access other Apps while playing, unless there a key combo to do it?

 

[Peko?]

⌘ + ⇥
Can be supplemented with shift to move the other way

 

[Baldrik3505]

This works (I thought I'd tried it, but it seems not), doesn't do much good though because even with Stellaris paused its still eating most of the CPU time? I guess it doesn't handle the MacOS Activate/Deactivate events very well if at all...

 

[Peko?]

AFAIK there's no way to forcibly pause an application on OS X. Even if there was I'd bet that it would compromise the stability of said application.
It's slightly off topic though as changing windows doesn't cause out of focus applications to pause unless they've been specifically coded to do so.

 

[Baldrik3505]

There are two methods that get called Deactivate and Activate, you need to take appropriate action in those methods in order to stop it eating CPU. It may be that you can't do it easily in Stellaris but basically you need to stop its main event loop in Deactivate, and start it again on Activate. As I say it's easy in a proper Mac App, but might not be easy when taking into account the Stellaris engine. It shouldn't compromise the stability as long as you implement what is needed correctly, the OS will call you - you need to do the right thing in the right method.

 

[Baldrik3505]

I ran the Activity Monitor, it looks like its using Unix Threads deep down, I would there is a Main Timer that is set to something in the milliseconds range, each times it fires the main event loop gets called, it's probably like if (Paused == TRUE) return. If so then all that needs to be done is to lover the time-out value to something sensible for a background app (4 times a second maybe) in the Deactivate method and set it back to the real number in Activate.