Picture in picture

[jabsystems]

I had to reinstall totally yesterday, and now cannot get PiP to work with Innerspace and EQ1.

What am I missing please?


Thanks.

[Lax]

Inner Space's old picture-in-picture script is outdated and therefore is no longer included by default. It is being replaced with a "new and improved" version that will have a user interface for configuration

[jabsystems]

Ah okay, will wait for the new one then.

[Xunil]

PiP was the only reason I bought InnerSpace 6 months ago. I 3box all the time and I haven't been able to for nearly a month. I sure hope you guys are going to fix this soon.

It is worthless to me without it.

[Lax]

Had you asked a month ago, I would have told you how to fix the original pip.iss

PIP is done by using a combination of commands, this isnt something built into Inner Space

[Xunil]

Ok, I am asking, how do I fix it?

when I attempt to do manually using "event" command it says command unknown.

[Lax]

Well, the Inner Space event system was recently replaced and implemented directly in LavishScript. Now, LavishScript atoms can be attached to events. A fairly simple script can be used to set this up.

PIP-Init.iss

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global atom PIP_OnActivate()
{
   run pip.iss
}

function main()
{
  Event[On Activate]:Attach[PIP_OnActivate]
}

The PIP.iss from before should probably still work fine with that. Let me know.

[easytarget]

how would one aquire the pip.iss until the new system is inplace.

[jabsystems]

Where can I get a copy of the old pip.iss please? I lost it in the reinstall.

[jabsystems]

No one has a copy of the pip.iss? I'm not even using Inner Space at the moment because PiP isn't working.

[Lax]

If PIP is all you use it for, are you using a game that WinEQ 2 works with? heh.

Here's the old PIP.iss

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;Remove this line if you make changes to this file you want to keep
; Picture-in-Picture

; This is the upper left corner, given in pixels, of where Picture windows will start.  They will
; be lined up in a single direction from this point.  The direction is chosen below
#define LEFT   20
#define TOP    20

; Height and width by default are calculated to 1/4 of the height and width of the active window
#define HEIGHT ${Math.Calc[${Display.ViewableHeight}/4]}
#define WIDTH  ${Math.Calc[${Display.ViewableWidth}/4]}
; They can be numbers, as below
;#define HEIGHT 320
;#define WIDTH  240


; Select one direction by changing the line below to one of the four possibilities
#define DIRECTION    DIRECTION_DOWN

; Don't change these four lines
#define DIRECTION_DOWN  y:Inc[${cy}]
#define DIRECTION_UP    y:Dec[${cy}]
#define DIRECTION_RIGHT x:Inc[${cx}]
#define DIRECTION_LEFT  x:Dec[${cx}]

function main()
{
    pipforeground
  if !${Sessions}
  {
    windowvisibility foreground
    return
  }

  declare Count int local 1
  declare cx int local WIDTH
  declare cy int local HEIGHT
  declare x int local LEFT
  declare y int local TOP

  do
  {
    uplink relay "${Session[${Count}]}" "windowsize -rescale -viewable ${cx}x${cy};windowpos ${x},${y};windowvisibility -noactivate alwaysontop;windowframe none"
    DIRECTION
  }
  while "$&#123;Count&#58;Inc&#125;<=$&#123;Sessions&#125;"
  windowvisibility foreground
&#125; 

[jabsystems]

Thanks Lax, and I wanted to get the basics working with PiP and global commands before I moved onto advanced stuff.

[oddx]

New PIP in or coming anytime soon?

[Lax]

I've tried to offer scripters some $$ to create a decent PiP script in the past, but nobody took the bait. I'll try posting on ismods in the Bounty Hunting forum.

[oddx]

Made an atom from the code above, it no longer crashes for me when using pip. nothing fancy but solid. Add this atom into a copied off DefaultStartup.iss

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atom(globalkeep) PIP_OnActivate()
{
;Remove this line if you make changes to this file you want to keep 
; Picture-in-Picture 

; This is the upper left corner, given in pixels, of where Picture windows will start.  They will 
; be lined up in a single direction from this point.  The direction is chosen below 
#define LEFT   0 
#define TOP    30 

; Height and width by default are calculated to 1/4 of the height and width of the active window 
#define HEIGHT ${Math.Calc[${Display.ViewableHeight}/6]} 
#define WIDTH  ${Math.Calc[${Display.ViewableWidth}/6]} 
; They can be numbers, as below 
;#define HEIGHT 320 
;#define WIDTH  240 


; Select one direction by changing the line below to one of the four possibilities 
#define DIRECTION    DIRECTION_DOWN 

; Don't change these four lines 
#define DIRECTION_DOWN  y:Inc[${cy}] 
#define DIRECTION_UP    y:Dec[${cy}] 
#define DIRECTION_RIGHT x:Inc[${cx}] 
#define DIRECTION_LEFT  x:Dec[${cx}] 

  pipforeground 
  if !${Sessions} 
  { 
    windowvisibility foreground 
    return 
  } 

  declare Count int local 1 
  declare cx int local WIDTH 
  declare cy int local HEIGHT 
  declare x int local LEFT 
  declare y int local TOP 

  do 
  { 
    uplink relay "${Session[${Count}]}" "windowsize -rescale -viewable ${cx}x${cy};windowpos ${x},${y};windowvisibility -noactivate alwaysontop;windowframe none" 
    DIRECTION 
  } 
  while "$&#123;Count&#58;Inc&#125;<=$&#123;Sessions&#125;" 
  windowvisibility foreground 
&#125; 

To turn that on add this into the game function(in same file you added the atom) you want pip to work with.

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Event[On Activate]:AttachAtom[PIP_OnActivate]

hope this helps some people that just cant figure out how to get pip on in the latest IS.