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W-MODE is a "new" "plugin" for StarCraft that enables you to play the game
in a window. It was tested on many of the previous versions up to 1.14 but
but it was designed to be compatible with ANY StarCraft version.
There is a function built into W-MODE that handles the cursor, it is called
"cursor clipping". The hotkeys provided to control this:
So, if you switch on clipping you can not move out the cursor from the sc
screen and you can scroll your map with the cursor. If you hold down the
ALT key your clip is turned off temporarily and you can pull out the cursor
from the sc screen. When the cursor is outside the sc screen you can
release the ALT key so clip is on again but it will be actually activeted
only when you move the cursor back to your sc screen. The cursor clip
becomes activated/deactivated automatically in some circumstances. It is
automatically deactivated for example when you switch to another window
with ALT+TAB or your cursor moves over another window that partially covers
the sc screen (for example a winamp with always-on-top mode or a hint window
of the system tray that says "You have not enough free space on drive E:" :p).
Clip is automatically activated when you hold down the left mouse button to
use rectangle selection of more units or to scroll the map using the minimap.
When cursor clip is off you can use the ALT key to temporarily switch on
the clip so as to make it possible to scroll your map in the game. That's
all about cursor clipping of W-MODE, let's go 'n' try it!
Other hotkeys:
You can switch some of these functionalities not only with hotkey but with
mouse by clicking the cool icons on the window if they are not grayed.
- W-MODE has nothing to do with game music/sound. When you switch from
your starcraft window to another all sc sound mutes (at least on my
machine). This is totally dependent on your DirectSound shipped with
your current DirectX package. It can be worked around, maybe in the
future...
- Your StarCraft game does not pause automatically in single player mode
when you switch to another window than starcraft's. This is actually
not a bug, I wanted sc to do so :D Just bring up the menus with F10
in single player mode to pause the game.
To set the options you can find a sample wmode.ini file with comments
about the possible keys. W-MODE will search wmode.ini in the StarCraft
directory. Thats all about the plug, using it is very simple.
Times are hard, and I'am rarely online but you can try to reach me at:
- www.bwprogrammers.com
- www.scindex.com
- xenomails|at|freemail|dot|hu
Greetingz,
XeNotRoN
June 2, 2007