Portable release - comments

[Frick]

Any way to disable full screen picture? I play from work and the boss asks the questions - what have you got for a pretty space picture? Even though I play in between jobs, but the boss does not approve of this.

AcidWeb will make it an option in next release. I don't know how far away 7.2 is (or 7.1x).

[seronis]

The next release is gonna be C# Aurora which will be a year away. You can open up taskmanager and kill the wrapper after launching aurora so the background image obviously isnt essential to anything happening. There really isnt any excuse why its not configurable.

[AcidWeb]

If you kill wrapper before ending Aurora all changes make by it will not be reverted on Aurora shutdown.

I already said I will add option to disable background. Stop act like you are entitled to anything. I spend my private time on this project and nobody force you to use it if you don't like it.

[seronis]

Changes which have no ill effects.  On the other hand the image itself breaks your desktop making it inaccessible.

Honest question:  why does the image even exist?  What was the intended goal in disabling the users desktop while playing?

[AcidWeb]

Well if that changes don't have any ill effects on your system then you don't need wrapper at all.

[seronis]

Its the only clean installer.  Vanilla install is a hackjob of manually piecing together all the parts to get up to date.  I also like the built in music.  I dont like losing access to my desktop. Many other people have complained about losing access to their desktop too. Yes I personally can launch the aurora.exe without the wrapper and play fine but many people cant.

[AcidWeb]

As I already said three times - there will be option to disable background.

[shult12]

I want to use autohotkey to put some windows on top but it doesn't work when launching through the wrapper.

[DaMachinator]

I don't know if this was ever made an option but as of the current releases of both portable and full game you can access the desktop with the wrapper running on Windows systems at the very least.

ALT+TAB and START+TAB are wonderful things, and hitting the Start menu key on keyboards that have it still brings up the taskbar with the "Show Desktop" button that still works.

The one thing I have noticed is that many of the other Windows popup boxes are recolored with Aurora's theme (which I don't mind) and all of the text in dropdown menus in Waterfox and LibreOffice becomes the Aurora yellow color (which is really annoying because I can't read the text any more.) These effects stop upon closing Aurora and its wrapper. Usually the wrapper closes when the game exits, but not always.

[Erik L]

The one thing I have noticed is that many of the other Windows popup boxes are recolored with Aurora's theme (which I don't mind) and all of the text in dropdown menus in Waterfox and LibreOffice becomes the Aurora yellow color (which is really annoying because I can't read the text any more.) These effects stop upon closing Aurora and its wrapper. Usually the wrapper closes when the game exits, but not always.

That is Aurora doing that, not the wrapper. If you exit Aurora via menu, it is supposed to revert the colors.

[AcidWeb]

Usually the wrapper closes when the game exits, but not always.

Fun fact - Wrapper exit only if game exit completely. If wrapper stay - that means Aurora is still runnning even if window is not visible.

[tapk]

Sadly current Aurora_Wrapper. exe doesn't work on WinXP  Considering that Aurora itself is recommended to run in XP compatibility mode, Aurora Portable Pack isn't fully compatible with any existing system 
Is this so hard to add WinXP compatibility in Aurora_Wrapper. exe?

[AcidWeb]

Never tested it on so ancient system.

I'm quite sure it don't work on Windows 95 and 3.11 too.
Seriously it is year 2016. XP is 15 years old. Stop using it. 

[tapk]

Stop using it. 

If I only could. . .   

[MarcAFK]

XP was fine untill my laptop exploded. Then I had 7 which was fine untill my laptop exploded.  Maybe your PC's are too durable ?