hoikas/legacywindow

Windowed mode for Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time

legacywindow's Issues

Mouse Hidden on Caption Bar

Legacy.exe hides the mouse pointer over the window caption/title bar. This makes it somewhat challenging to move the game window.

Game Scaling

Legacy of Time was released in 1998 and has a hardwired resolution of 640x480. This was getting slightly long in the tooth at that time, however, it was less noticeable due to most folks using CRT monitors. Now, with our 2K and 4K behemoths, this is terrible, even with the ability to run the game in a window. Given that we are already rendering to a proxy surface under the hood, we should allow the destination DC to be larger that the source.

System Menu

The original Legacy game has a menu at the top of the screen that appears only when that area is moused over. In our hook, we draw to the game window's client area. Unfortunately, the menu is nonclient area, causing awkward shifting in the game window. The solution here is to make the menu always visible.

Inventory

The inventory selection UI does not open. git bisect reveals it was broken in 5a76001.

Save Settings

The settings from our settings menu are neither saved when changed nor reloaded. At bare minimum, we should remember the resolution setting.

Save Game Dialog

The save game dialog draws the preview image to the main surface instead of the dialog box.

Dialog Window Rendering

Legacy.exe uses appears to use ddraw to render some portions of its popup dialog windows. In the original game on Windows XP, this works fine. However, on the gog.com version of the game, those portions are absent from the dialog. When our window hook is present, you can actually briefly see these portions are being rendered to the main game window behind the dialog.

Dialog GDI Text

Any dialogs that use GDI functions to render text are ultimately rendering to the main surface.