bh75
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Posted - 2010.09.24 04:29:00 -
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Originally by: Pierced Brosmen um... well... The resize function is somewhat nice, but I'm experiencing some issues with this.
The first thing that caught my attention is the fact that when running eve in windowed mode at max resolution (same resolution as the screen), the window seems to automaticaly resize itself to make room for the task bar, regardless of the resolution you have set it to run at. This is an issue, cause I like eve to cover the taskbar when it's the active window (like the past and current TQ clients does). Ofcourse it is possible to set the task bar to auto hide, but that is not really a solution, as it will pop up again if I move the cursor to the bottom of the screen (where the tabs for minimized in-game windows are).
I normaly run 2 or more eve clients simultaneously, having one on my priamry screen and the others on my secondary (wich is smaller). To make eve look it's best, I use Zeonelle's EVEWindowFrameRemover tool that removes the frames and makes the clients run as if they were in full screen mode (and not just reposition the window to hide the frames off screen, like for example EveHQ does), but now that the client seems to automatically change window size based on "available" screen area, the tool no longer works.
So, as helpfull as the resize function is to some, I hope there will be an option to turn it off, and have the client launch and run in the resolution you have previously set it to run.
The current state of the SISI client, regarding the window resizing, is really an annoyance and it ruins some of the gaming experience
The issue of Eve not displaying over the task bar is not an EVE issue but is actually a win 7/Vista issue. Basically any window that follows the rules on resizing (which the old EVE client (TQ) did not) has this issue. You can do it with IE just resize so the bottom is below the task bar and you will see. In XP there was an option to turn off "Taskbar always on top". In Vista and 7 Microsoft took this away so the taskbar will always be on top of an application that uses the Windows resize function. Why Microsoft took it away I do not know (see this post) probably because they are Microsoft and know all. You can change it in Vista and 7 but there are some drawbacks but I will let you read the post and decide whether you want to implement it or not. The guys at CCP maybe able to find a hack around it but I do doubt it. I hope this helps.
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