Mac OSX Screen saver security lock

daZalla · Post by **daZalla** » August 20th, 2004, 11:00 am

I have enabled password protection for screen saver. When screen saver kicks in, or laptop sleeps while Wesnoth is showing a wierd thing happens:
- when I do some action the laptop wakes up
- Wesnoth is displayed full screen and I can play
- after a short delay the laptop shuts off
- (repeat previous as many times as you want)
- when exiting Wesnoth the security dialog appears

Proposed correction:
Wesnoth should obey sreen saver lock (and other security features, if appropriate).

Wish feature:
Wesnoth should obey Command-TAB and other application management keys.

Aldo daZalla

sanna · Post by **sanna** » August 20th, 2004, 11:02 am

Yeah, I've had the same trouble. I've worked around it by only playing Wesnoth in windowed mode.

Post by **Dave** » August 20th, 2004, 11:35 am

Do you know what API can be used on MacOSX to implement this feature?

I'm not even sure if it's implementable at all....it might be an SDL-level thing. Do you know of any SDL-based games that don't have this problem?

We might have to ask the SDL developers about this...

David

sanna · Post by **sanna** » August 20th, 2004, 11:42 am

Dave wrote:I'm not even sure if it's implementable at all....it might be an SDL-level thing.

I'm not sure it this is any help, but in general no keystrokes seems to be passed on from the game to the os, this is probably also why the usual mac shortcuts (to quit or hide the app for ex) doesn't work.

wobbegong · Post by **wobbegong** » August 20th, 2004, 11:30 pm

No idea about the SDL side of things. But can confirm that no keystrokes seem to reach the OS... One idea might be to have a 'quit & save' single command option that can be hotkeyed - then Mac users can hotkey it to <whatever you want to call the key next to the spacebar>-Q which is a the standard Mac keyboard 'quit-application-now' combination. This might also be useful on other OSes as well.

I'd find a use for this as I sometimes find myself trying to cram a few turns in during a quiet times at work and having to save, quit scenario, then quit the game before I can do anything else is sometimes a bit of a hassle...[The wonders of running a network - another one of those things with periods of boredom and those also of frightening amounts of sudden work!] (alas windowed mode on a 12" PowerBook is not very practical to my eyes... though my new glasses might be helping

).

Cheers,

Tim.

Post by **Dave** » August 21st, 2004, 12:31 am

I would like to make Wesnoth do the platform-specific things that are expected on various platforms. I will discuss this with Sithrandel when he returns.

Thanks for everyone's input. If nothing else, I am intrigued to try using a Mac myself one day

David

Post by **quartex** » August 23rd, 2004, 2:27 am

Perhaps the mac Wesnoth forum community can help you use a mac someday.

Right now I'm donating my money towards helping Scott Kurtz (http://www.pvp.com) buy a mac.

pip8184 · Post by **pip8184** » August 23rd, 2004, 5:10 am

wesnoth doesn't pass anything to the windows kernel either

. no alt-tab, no alt-f4

Invisible Philosopher · August 23rd, 2004, 10:13 am

Oddly, in windowed mode (Mac OS X), Wesnoth obeys Command-Tab, but not shortcuts for menu items. But it doesn't work in full-screen mode. It seems that some things it some situations are handled by the OS before any application gets to see them. But Wesnoth in fullscreen mode shuts out that stuff to a higher degree. I can press Command-Option-Escape to force quit in fullscreen mode, but Wesnoth has such control that the Force Quit window can't come up and it has to just force quit Wesnoth immediately.