Alt+Tab switching in FoT while playing

StarFox · Post by **StarFox** » Tue Oct 29, 2002 8:02 pm

I need to know how to enable Alt+Tab switching or task switching in any way possible during gameplay. Do you think you can help me out?

Hopefully there must be a way to do this without reinstalling FoT.

I have tried to launch FoT as minimized, but that didn't help, however I might be doing it wrong.

Might it have something to do with the Control Pannel?

There is perhaps an older thread dealing with this problem, do you know how to find it? (My search didn't give me anything.)

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 1:12 am

This has been answered already, but since you're new, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

To minimise FOT(and this is V1.27), right click on your desktop shortcut of FOT, click on Properties, then in the target box, add -w to the end of it. If you installed FOT into the default directory, then the end result shoud look like this: "C:\Program Files\14 Degrees East\Fallout Tactics\BOS.EXE" -w

Keep in mind that I drew all of this from memory, so something could be wrong. Also note that doing this runs FOT in windowed mode, which enables you to minimise it at will. To run FOT in full-screen mode is more complicated, as you will have to edit you BOS.cfg file, which is located wherever you installed FOT. I have a notepad file which says how to do this, but I don't have it at the moment. I will E-mail it to you if you wish.

StarFox · Post by **StarFox** » Wed Oct 30, 2002 4:22 am

here we go

gts_fox_mccloud@hotmail.com

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Thu Oct 31, 2002 3:54 am

Alright. Give me a couple of days, since it's on a floppy, which I can't find....yet.

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Thu Oct 31, 2002 2:35 pm

I have these shortcut buttons on my computer, and i just press 'calculator' on it, if i need it, and its really fast... And it works.

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 1:00 am

Damn! My E-mail is down again! well here's that file....

Words of Wisdom from MurPHy at the DAC forums

The only way to minimize FOT while it's running is to use windowed mode. To do so:

1) Right-click on the shortcut you use to start Fallout Tactics (Presumably on your Desktop).

2) Click on the "Shortcut" tab.

3) Left-click on "Properties"

4) In the "Target" textbox, you should see "C:\Program Files\14 Degrees East
\Fallout Tactics\XXXXX.exe" If you installed FOT to a different directory, then that
will be shown.

Where I wrote XXXXX.exe, you should have BOS.exe, or FalloutTacticsLauncher.exe.

4) After that's done, simply add the following in the same textbox:

"-w" (without parentheses)

Your final shortcut should look something like this:

"C:\Program Files\14 Degrees East\Fallout Tactics\BOS.exe" -w

Note that if you didn't install the game to the default location (which is what's above),
you'll see something different. The important part is to make sure that you leave a space
between /BOS.exe" and -w (or FalloutTacticsLauncher.exe" -w)

Now, to get back into full-screen mode, open bos.cfg with notepad (it's located in the
core directory of FOT), and the very first line should say: "{display.bpp} = {0}".
If the number is 0, then change it to 1 to get full-screen mode.
Change it back to 0 to get windowed mode (using either the aforementioned method or simply
going into bos.cfg with notepad and changing it there.

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 1:30 pm

MurPHy wrote:"-w" (without parentheses)

... Um, aren't they quotation marks?

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 1:05 am

Erm, my bad.

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 4:11 pm

lol, i dont really care... Just dont confuse the n00bs.

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:24 am

Hah! yeah, don't wanna give em a headache now, do we?

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 6:30 am

Nope... hey, is there a space between the path, and the -w?

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 9:10 pm

Yup, there is.

vVolf · Post by **vVolf** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 2:17 pm

Great, hey welcome to tha Forums. 8O