Altirra - Loading tapes upon boot in fullscreen

[Foebane]

On the Altirra emulator for Atari 8-Bit, I can boot into it with roms, disks and other media types and they all boot in fullscreen, but when I try to boot a tape load, it opens in a window instead, even if I set the /f parameter for fullscreen. Is there a way of booting tapes in fullscreen? Some setting I can't see?

 

[baktra]

With the following command lines:

altirra c:\users\baktra\a8\pokus_changed.cas /f
altirra "C:\Users\baktra\a8\filtered\turborom_zestaw4_strona_A.wav" /f 

I can confirm the behavior with Altirra 4.00; the emulator doesn't go to fullscreen

With Altirra 4.10-test26, the emulator goes to the fullscreen as expected.

 

So perhaps, you can switch to the development version, if you can.

 

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by baktra

[Mclaneinc]

It's probably to do with the tape image loader mini window that forces it back to windowed mode.

[phaeron]

Yeah, so the backstory behind this is that loading a tape spawns a progress window in case it takes a long time, like decoding a large WAV file. Unfortunately, native Windows UI doesn't work in exclusive fullscreen mode, so this forces an exit back to windowed mode. Creating custom UI for exclusive fullscreen is a lot of work, so as a mitigation in 4.10-test I suppressed the progress dialog when exclusive fullscreen is active.

 

That having been said, windowed/borderless fullscreen doesn't have this issue and is recommended over exclusive fullscreen in most cases.

[baktra]

Perhaps using OSD to indicate the decoding process would be worth considering.