Disabling Flowfield Unions

[BTT]

Hello All

I am using GF Platinum (latest version) and, my personel preference is to disable Flowfield Unions which I do by way of the GF Toolbar. Unfortunately, when I next start GF the Flowfield Unions have been activated again. I am sure there must be a way to disable the Flowfield Unions until such times that I wish to re-activate them. Any and all help will be most welcome.

Regards BTT

[juxtiphi]

Hello All

I am using GF Platinum (latest version) and, my personel preference is to disable Flowfield Unions which I do by way of the GF Toolbar. Unfortunately, when I next start GF the Flowfield Unions have been activated again. I am sure there must be a way to disable the Flowfield Unions until such times that I wish to re-activate them. Any and all help will be most welcome.

Regards BTT

open GF toolbar uncheck or check the desired setting and then close the GF window and then the toolbar and see if that helps.

[jerohm]

I THINK I can tell you a WAY ... NOT the right way, but it should still work ...

rename "...\SoundSpectrum\G-Force\FlowField Unions"
to:
"...\SoundSpectrum\G-Force\_FlowField Unions"

or anything ELSE you might prefer

OR (Strike 2!)
if you want to know what I THINK is a better way, edit
"...\SoundSpectrum\G-Force\Scripts\Startup.txt"
and add this line to the end of the file:

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SetSlideShow( CONFIG_UNION, 0 );

I BELIEVE when the toolbar stores away its Prefs upon closing, it is having trouble with the '<SPACE>' that is peculiar to "FlowField Unions" naming convention... maybe!?

[BTT]

Hello juxtiphi

Many thanks for your reply. Actually that is the method I had been trying to no avail.

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Hello jerohm

Why did I know that the solution would come from yourself?.

Your info:- if you want to know what I THINK is a better way, edit
"...\SoundSpectrum\G-Force\Scripts\Startup.txt"
and add this line to the end of the file:
Code:
SetSlideShow( CONFIG_UNION, 0 );

YES!!! - Flowfield Unions are now disabled just as I wanted them.

Sometimes, when I read those very detailed posts of yours I wonder if in fact you are Mr. O'Meara.

Thanks for your help again.

Regards BTT

[jerohm]

As JayPro has previously pointed out, I TOO do NOT think that the FlowField Unions are exactly working correctly. From my take, I THINK they should combine two flowfields, each restricted to unique areas on the screen. It appears to ME that only ONE flowfield is active and masked ... and the areas where the other flowfield should be displayed, it is essentially (but not completely) blank. This is ASSuming I know what I am talking about ... and THAT may be a bad bet.

I do KNOW that turning them off via the toolbar was not saved between invocations, in previous [recent] versions either... probably NOT intentional (READ: Bug!)

[sitsparky]

Thanks for helping BTT out with this, guys. In case Andy was not already aware, I have created a bug ticket regarding this issue so that he may hopefully address it in the next point release.

[andy55]

FF Union slideshow setting in the GF Toolbar wasn't setup to persist between G-Force sessions. Since user sentiment seems to prefer that it does persist, I have made this change for G-Force 4.1.1.

Note that as of GF 4, all config types have a new pref:

'(config type).Slideshow.EnableOnStartup'

This causes the slideshow to not be enabled by default on startup (and this is what the Toolbar is now also setting when the FF Unions checkbox is checked/unchecked).