vpauto (for Visual Pinball)

[Wombat]

Been a longtime user of Visual Pinball 8 but sometimes get frustrated with (lack of) speed issues on my latter day machine/video card since it was coded for older machines/Direct X7.

So I'm starting to incorporate some rewritten tables for the newer (takes better advantage of your latter-day hardware) Visual Pinball 9.0.2

Works well (especially the JPSalas tables) but a minor, yet continued, issue still exists with rulesheet displays.

Because vpauto is listed in my "also run" fields under GameEx, I assume this is a compiled screen that gives focus to the pinmame rom/Visual pinball table and keeps focus, and also handles relevants tasks, like dialog boxes on entry/exit and this continues to function under VP9.

However table authors often include rulesheets with their tables that you can display with a press of a key. These are primarily done in the table script as a popup window although JPSalas is now displaying these as .hta files which gives extra scope for html elements.

Unfortunately whilst the display does quickly popup, presumably the focus element of VPAUTO quickly throws it to the background. Is it possible for this script to be updated so that this windows is not forced to the background until the user dismisses it? Assuming VPAUTO is a compiled script, is it also possible to get the original, uncompiled script? (I'd like to look at it to increase my knowledge of such matters with a view to doing similar arrangements)

[Tom Speirs]

Here you go.

vpauto.zip