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Old 03-17-2009, 07:05 AM   #1
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Please add a user customisable exit button

Please please please add a user customizable exit button. I run the screensaver on a windows media center pc. The old aquarium would exit on any of the buttons I pressed on the remote - eg. start media center (otherwise known as the green button), or the back button (i think it's mapped to backspace). Now with the version 3 beta, none of my remote buttons will exit the screen saver (seems only Escape key will exit). Alternatively please add an option to disable all hotkeys and allow any keyboard key to wakeup screensaver. I love this product so much I paid for the upgrade without even trying it. But now it's useless for me like this.
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Old 03-17-2009, 09:50 AM   #2
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Do the remote buttons work if you turn on Exit On Mouse Move?
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Old 03-17-2009, 11:38 AM   #3
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And release new beta or final 3.0
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Old 03-17-2009, 01:01 PM   #4
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I'm not quite sure what "final 3.0" means. Are people waiting for me to guarantee that I will never add or improve anything again?
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Old 03-17-2009, 05:47 PM   #5
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Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
Do the remote buttons work if you turn on Exit On Mouse Move?  
Tried that and it didn't help.
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Old 03-17-2009, 07:07 PM   #6
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I'm trying to picture what would be different between 2.6 and 3.0, regarding what causes an exit. The only thing that I could think of was the fact that Exit on Mouse Move defaulted to ON with the old program, and now (temporarily) defaults to OFF.
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Old 03-17-2009, 11:49 PM   #7
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The problem is more likely that SC_CLOSE message does not try to exit.
We need to call the WM_CLOSE on that message.
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Old 03-18-2009, 12:19 AM   #8
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OK, I'll take care of it.
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Old 03-19-2009, 02:37 AM   #9
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One other thing I'd like to point out is that ALT+F4 is ignored. That used to work on 2.6.

I hope a new version can be released soon. Version 3 looked glorious on my 50" plasma.
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Old 03-19-2009, 09:15 AM   #10
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What's ALT+F4 again?
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Old 03-19-2009, 10:14 AM   #11
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Alt+F4 is a windows keyboard shortcut to close the active window/application.

You can try it on your favorite application. If it's your programming environment, just make sure that you try it AFTER you save all your awesome updates to the clams.
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Old 03-19-2009, 10:32 AM   #12
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What a cumbersome and arcane way of exiting the program. Why not just hit Esc, or right-click/Exit, or have Exit-on-Mousemove turned on?
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Old 03-19-2009, 11:34 AM   #13
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If Esc was all you had to press to completely close a program, using computers with modern operating systems would be a nightmare.

It would be possible to get completely kicked out of banking apps, chat software, development environments, Microsoft Word, etc. by pressing 1 key.

Alt-F4 just difficult enough to type that nobody will accidentally do it, and it has been the Windows standard since 1994. For 15 years, all Windows software has been designed to accept the Alt-F4 keystroke to exit. By the way, in Firefox, you can close individual tabs with Ctrl-F4.
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Old 03-19-2009, 07:21 PM   #14
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Alt-F4 is a shortcut for CloseWindow. SC_CLOSE is the message the app will see.
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Old 03-19-2009, 08:25 PM   #15
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I have Exit On Mouse Move turned off. I have a Razer Copperhead mouse. If I press themiddle button (Scroll) the program will exit.
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Old 03-21-2009, 06:52 AM   #16
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Originally posted by Jim Sachs:
What a cumbersome and arcane way of exiting the program. Why not just hit Esc, or right-click/Exit, or have Exit-on-Mousemove turned on?  
You're forgetting my original problem. I am doing this from a remote control. The buttons that make most sense to exit the screensaver are backspace (media center remotes use this as the back key - same as the browser) and my custom exit button (which transmits ALT+F4).

Both of these key combinations worked just fine on 2.6. Exiting via Escape key is a horrible concept (nice little summary provided by feldon33 ). Please provide additional options!
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Old 03-21-2009, 10:33 AM   #17
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OK, I'll look into it.
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Old 07-07-2009, 05:10 PM   #18
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Hi,

It's been some time and the latest beta I downloaded still has this issue.. any progress on this?

I'd really like to start using version 3, seeing as I paid for it!
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Old 08-17-2009, 11:33 AM   #19
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I agree that Alt+F4 to close the screen saver is good behaviour. The Beta10d MA3 handles it in windowed mode, but not full screen
[edit]seems like an "[ ] exit on keypress" option would solve it to everyone's liking[/edit]
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Old 08-17-2009, 12:55 PM   #20
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Originally posted by aann:
I agree that Alt+F4 to close the screen saver is good behaviour. The Beta10d MA3 handles it in windowed mode, but not full screen
[edit]seems like an "[ ] exit on keypress" option would solve it to everyone's liking[/edit]  

As mention earlier, "Alt-F4" to close a window/application is standard windows behavior (and has been for a decade and a half). This key combination should work regardless of which mode the screen saver is in.

The "exit on keypress" option seem like a reasonable request as well (assuming that is defaulted off) that shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Just my $0.02.

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