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[wolis]

In a bid to automate switching from Desktop to Fullscreen I thought I could have two *.reg files and use batch files to switch between them as needed.

 

I found the Player part of the registry looks promising - these in particular:

 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Visual Pinball\VP10\Player]
"FullScreen"=dword:00000000
"Width"=dword:00000320
"Height"=dword:00000258
"Display"=dword:00000000

 

When I toggled the 'Use always FS backdrop settings...' it did not change the 'Fullscreen' value but the 'Display' value.

 

Can anyone confirm the checkbox is linked to the 'Display' value? 

 

I though maybe 'Fullscreen' refers to a screen res (Windowed Fullscreen)' but it  didn't change when I changed resolutions.

 

Any idea what the Fullscreen value does? 

Edited by wolis, 31 August 2022 - 10:52 PM.

[wolis]

FYI this is looking promising:

 

I have two exported *.reg files with different screen settings.

I have two batch files to import then run vpx eg:

 

@echo off
regedit.exe /S "C:\vPinball\VisualPinball\HKCU_Software_VPX_Player_DT.reg"
start "vpx" C:\vPinball\VisualPinball\vpinballX.exe

Aside from the UAC Warning message these do as expected and switch between screen settings.

 

So I probably don't need and answer to my original question I us export and import with the settings I need regardless of what they are called or look like in regedit....

 

... but it would still be nice to know :-)

 

Seems like there is confusion (for me at least) between the term 'Fullscreen' and the concept of 90 degree rotated playfield.

Edited by wolis, 31 August 2022 - 10:50 PM.

[wiesshund]

Full screen is exclusive full screen mode on or off

 

FS backdrop is orientation (AKA display)

 

and the only line you have to save in your regedit files, is the display line
you can shed all the others if you want

[wolis]

Excellent.. thanks!