Anyway to Restart an App on Windows?

Solar2D Win32 Desktop
#1

I have this idea that I want to play around with the Config file.  My App has a couple of “HD” displays - 1920 x 1080.  I wanted to give the users the ability to have the App running on a Windows computer using a display of this type.  However, when they then go into the App to do something I want the app to change to the default display format which I think is 1080 x 720 to then load other screens.

I appreciate that the config file is the place to change these settings, but I understand is that the config file is only read on start up.  I know how to dynamically change the config file screen layout, but in order to trigger this for the user they need to restart the app.

Can anyway think of a way of restarting the App in Windows from the App?  I know we have our Native.Exit function but that will only shut the app down.

Or, can we somehow reload the config file to reset the screen res?

#2

You can use this API call: native.setProperty() https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/setProperty.html

to programmatically switch between screen modes.

Then in your build.settings, you can set the default screen size when not maximized. You can also allow the user to resize windows and set the minimum and maximum sizes.  See: https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/distribution/win32Build/index.html#windowsettings

Rob

#3

Thanks Rob. Not sure that this quiet hits the mark, but I like your thinking and useful to know about that function. My issue is that I use the ZoomStretch setting in my config file with my normal screen size of 1080 by 780. Now, if I do put together some HD screens with this setting they will not look right (as any objects placed outside of that size will appear off screen). I appreciate I am trying to fix the issue from the wrong direction, but what I would like is to toggle my config file from the two size modes - 1080 by 780 and 1920 by 1080. But the only way I can see how to do this is to reload the app…

#4

You can use this API call: native.setProperty() https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/native/setProperty.html

to programmatically switch between screen modes.

Then in your build.settings, you can set the default screen size when not maximized. You can also allow the user to resize windows and set the minimum and maximum sizes.  See: https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/distribution/win32Build/index.html#windowsettings

Rob

#5

Thanks Rob. Not sure that this quiet hits the mark, but I like your thinking and useful to know about that function. My issue is that I use the ZoomStretch setting in my config file with my normal screen size of 1080 by 780. Now, if I do put together some HD screens with this setting they will not look right (as any objects placed outside of that size will appear off screen). I appreciate I am trying to fix the issue from the wrong direction, but what I would like is to toggle my config file from the two size modes - 1080 by 780 and 1920 by 1080. But the only way I can see how to do this is to reload the app…