Forums Feature Suggestions $fullscreen

Suggestion:

$fullscreen - returns $true if a program (movie/game/etc) is running full screen, otherwise returns $false

This would be useful in stopping popup dialogs, etc from being displayed if some program is running in full screen mode. I was recently watching a movie on WMP, and kept getting interrupted by one of my scripts which opens a popup dialog. A line like if ($fullscreen) return or if (!$fullscreen) /showdialog could be used to prevent the interruption.

I don't know if a similar identifier already exists or has already been suggested. I didn't find anything searching this forum for the past 5 years.

(BTW, I'm not looking for work-arounds)

-genius_at_work

I'd like to see this as well, for the same reason. My picwin popups interfere whilst playing CS.

ever thought of $appactive ? returns true or false... if mIRC is active, do this, else, well, you get the picture

$appactive is not what we are looking for. $appactive simply tells you if mIRC is visible or not. If mIRC were visible, then obviously another program isn't using fullscreen. If mIRC is not visible and there is no fullscreen program running, then we don't want to stop the popups from occuring, since that's the point of the popups- to let you know when something has happened while you were doing something else.

-genius_at_work

I'm backing this idea all the way \o/