HaCkeR

Ive played hundreds of games and ever one i have played has been able to minimize by using ALT-TAB. May i add that if you create a program that minimizes a game that it is very pointless as you will have a set button(s) that you will press to minimize it. Which is just like press ALT-TAB, pointless?

MBirchmeier

Side note: Alt-Tab doesn't usually minimize a window, just moves another window in front of it.

Windows-m tends to minimize a window.

-MBirchmeier

HaCkeR

if you don't have another window open it always minimizes it for me. Maybe this isn't the case for other people?

DaWei

Press ALT-F4 .

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Mocker

This little bit is new and helpful for me

Alt+tab moves a window in front, but losing focus of a fullscreen app makes it minimize, so its basically the same thing. If it was in windowed then it would just move to background. I can see a button to just minimize being better, because with alt+tab in windows it pulls up a l ist of other applications as well which on my poor computer cna slow it down. Especially since most of my games use directx and have to gothrough a bunch of stuff to save the game state when minimizing (makes sense now that I know what Dameon said)

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irish

And others of course, i meant that if no one else uses the program, i know that i will.

DaWei

First, you put this in the thread, and now you've quoted it. Do you feel that you have been criticized? I could probably explain a couple things about that, if you do.

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irish

I don't mean that I personally have been criticised, I mean criticism of the idea for this program.

lectricpharaoh

Hmm, I never knew about that hotkey. I can't test it though; whenever I get a keyboard, I pop off the Windows keys and remove the contacts from underneath, then put the keys back. It helps me avoid hitting them in games, or more precisely, whenever I'm trying for alt. I'm used to a longer spacebar from the pre-Windows keyboards, and those damn Windows keys annoy the fuck out of me. Besides, if I need to open the Start menu with the keyboard, that's what ctrl-esc is for.
I don't think it's criticism so much as puzzlement. Some of us are just not getting why you need such a program. If you're planning to run one or more instances of this game in minimized mode, and have them do their own thing in the background (for example, with a script or bot controlling the player's character), then I can see why you want to minimize them. However, I don't see why you need a program to do it.

It's kind of like me wanting to write a program that could double-click an icon on my desktop. Unless I'm trying to do it remotely (for example, controlling the mouse with my PDA), the effort of writing the program and invoking it each time is more work than just clicking the icon to begin with.

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HaCkeR

I wander if he fell for it ?