Mute and load lag issue w/ way around it

[Stabface]

Hmm maybe could change the systray icon. Or maybe just look into the overlay code I think it must not be very efficient. I know there's some apps like Teamspeak overlay that don't kill framerate.

Or look into how the in-game video player mods work they basically make a box in the UI a certain color and the tv tuner or video player overlay will show through.

[keyclone]

problem is, i'm not in-game... so i don't have the same permissions. i was trying for the mute look you'd see on TVs, but the transparent windows don't work as advertised... and you end up having the text just get removed unless you constantly paint it.

as for performance... i didn't think a single word being drawn on the screens would cause that must overhead. (although i think it's drawing it 40 times per second).

as for changign a color or a try icon.. what about those people using maximizer? that don't see the tray nor do they see the frame (no color)

if anyone has a better solution, i'm all ears

[Stabface]

Look at this mod for some ideas on the overlay thing I mentioned. Or google around for how these things work (sets a specific RGB value which overlay-mode software to draw through, somehow). I used to use a similar mod so I could watch TV while raiding. Hard to 5 box and still have time to watch TV if you're pushing yourself though

It would require a WoW UI mod for it to work and it would be a bit tricky to sort out positions and such with multi-client maximizer setup, but it would fix the framerate problem 100%. Not sure how hard something like this is to code though.



http://wowui.incgamers.com/?p=mod&m=649

[Monkofdoom]

problem is, i'm not in-game... so i don't have the same permissions. i was trying for the mute look you'd see on TVs, but the transparent windows don't work as advertised... and you end up having the text just get removed unless you constantly paint it.

as for performance... i didn't think a single word being drawn on the screens would cause that must overhead. (although i think it's drawing it 40 times per second).

as for changign a color or a try icon.. what about those people using maximizer? that don't see the tray nor do they see the frame (no color)

if anyone has a better solution, i'm all ears

Indeed my solution was more of a personal solution...

As a more varied one, is it possible just to have an always on top window about 100 * 50 px or something which we can drag around and it just goes green / red or something along those lines. I don't know about most people but I don't need the mute to be on every window, one place is plenty.