Closing a game without quitting ScummVM?

weemies · Post by **weemies** » Thu May 21, 2009 10:05 pm

Hi, I just registered but I've been using ScummVM a long time. Great program.

I just wanted to know if there's a way to close a game that's running without having to close the whole ScummVM app? I haven't found a way to do that. It's not like it's a huge deal but it would be nice.

ezekiel000 · Post by **ezekiel000** » Thu May 21, 2009 10:22 pm

Ctrl + F5 opens the menu that has an option "Return to Launcher"

Vampire · Post by **Vampire** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:08 am

Maybe a dumb question, but why are there two different menus? There is one pressing F5 and one pressing Ctrl+F5. The F5 one has a button "About" the other one doesn't have, the Ctrl+F5 one has the "Return to Launcher" button the other one doesn't have. :-/ Up to your comment I didn't realize the Ctrl+F5 menu, except in the Wii port, because there this is the only one accessible by the Home button.

ezekiel000 · Post by **ezekiel000** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:10 am

I guess because not all the engines support the new menu (Crtl+F5) but I'm not sure.

Vampire · Post by **Vampire** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:26 am

It seems to be more or less the very same, except of the "About" button that shows info about ScummVM and should be engine-independent and the "Return to Launcher" button that should be the same as the "Quit" button just that it doesn't quit ScummVM but returns to the launcher, this should also be engine-independent IMHO. :-/

ezekiel000 · Post by **ezekiel000** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:17 am

http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Advan ... 29_support

Vampire · Post by **Vampire** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:15 am

Hm, ok, I see. Thanks. But still I think it is confusing to the user that these dialogues are different, or that there are two at all. Or is the F5-one a SCUMM-own one?

ezekiel000 · Post by **ezekiel000** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:24 am

I think it's a case of parallel implementation people wanted the return to launcher button but because it is not supported by all engines it can't be in the default menu. SO they currently have both the old and the new one menus working. Maybe there are plans to phase out the old menu once all engines support the new one.
This is purely speculation, I'm not a dev.

weemies · Post by **weemies** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:18 pm

Cool, thanks for the answer. Worked nicely in Full Throttle (on PC) at least.

LordHoto · Post by **LordHoto** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:26 pm

Vampire wrote:Hm, ok, I see. Thanks. But still I think it is confusing to the user that these dialogues are different, or that there are two at all. Or is the F5-one a SCUMM-own one?

The F5 one of SCUMM games is SCUMM specific yes.

Vampire · Post by **Vampire** » Fri May 22, 2009 2:07 pm

yep, i know this from IRC now also

I created a feature request to merge these two menus.
I wanted to post a link here, but SF is only giving me white pages currently.

It is up again:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p ... tid=418823