opacity in beta .31

[TheThingIs]

setting opacity by running the command

Run application '{VA_DIR}\VoiceAttack.exe ' -with parameters '-opacity ??' (where ?? is the number)

doesn't seem to work. It works fine for darkmode though.

TheThingIs

[Gary]

I'm not able to reproduce the opacity problem.  Are you using other parameters or just -opacity by itself?

[Pfeil]

I am able to reproduce this.

The parameter only works on first run. It does not appear to affect a running instance, either from a normal shortcut or

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Run application '{VA_DIR}\VoiceAttack.exe' -with parameters '-opacity 20'

To clarify, the parameter "-opacity" does not work on a running instance at any time, including when "-toggledark" in active, however, "-toggledark" does work when called using the "Run An Application" action or a normal shortcut.


I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium x64.

[Gary]

I don't think it's set up to affect a running instance.  Also, there's not much done with it as it was set up to test if it was possible and then just left in and not removed.

[Pfeil]

Fair enough.

Though, currently it's not quite clear which parameters affect running instances; Under the section "Command Line Options" of the documentation, it is stated:

Note: If VoiceAttack is already started, most command line parameters affect the already-running instance of VoiceAttack.

Only "-nokeyboard" and "-nomouse" are specifically noted not to work in this way, while parameters like "-nospeech" and "-showloadtime" are not, even though they don't either.

Admittedly "-opacity" is in the "For fun... maybe" section, where the command line parameter "-toggledark" is specifially noted to always affect the running instance.

[TheThingIs]

ok np. I currently use nircmd.exe to do it but was trying to remove additional programs with my profile when possible.

Thanks