http://bzflag.bz/builds/2.0/BZFlag_2.0.0.dmg
Please respond with any Mac-specific questions, comments, or feedback here. Enjoy!

Cheers!
Heh, not to belittle your suggestion/request but it was in a bucket with many other folks who have requested the feature since day 1 of a Mac port. Having a windowed mode on Mac has been a long-desired feature as well as the ability to switch out to other applications. Regardless, the feedback is always welcome even if it's "well known" -- gives a sense of how important the feature is.EbErT wrote:I greatly appreciate the indroduction of the windowed option that I had suggested to the developers a while ago. although it is a good start, there are many ways to improve it.
The management of fonts is presently "difficult", but very flexible. You can actually change your font size to fairly large sizes as well as to new fonts. You have to presently edit your configuration file directly to do so, though. That is, editEbErT wrote:Problems with it are: the fonts seem a little small, and driving is a problem because the cursor jumps from the top to the bottom of the window when moved all the way to the top of the screen. I wonder if there is a way to let the cursor move in and out of the windowed area onto the desktop area, inorder to do other funtions on the computer besides bzflag.
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Any actual hard freezes should be alleviateable by pressing command-option-escape and then waiting about 10 seconds. That should cause Finder to abort the application and return you to your desktop. If it's otherwise frozen and you can consistently get it to hang up on you, please report that to the Bug tracker.EbErT wrote:I would love to see this implemented in future versions of bzflag, because it could save me big time when my keyboard occasionaly freezes up on boot up of bzflag, and i am forced to unplug the computer. Overall, bz2.0 for mac is way better than the old version. More stable, more options, more everything!
This is a cross-platform bug that was very quickly fixed after release. The next minor update will provide a fix.EbErT wrote:Also, i noticed that the text on the console screen tends to pile up if it is messed with.
cpanelfontsize and scorefontsize are already in the GUI options menu, as "ControlPanel Font Size" and "Scoreboard Font Size" (the third and second options in that menu, respectively). The font face itself is somewhat more work to put in a menu, but that will probably get done sometime.learner wrote:The cpanelfontsize and scorefontsize are what will change your font sizes. This will, of course, get moved into menus down the road, but it's not there yet.
same here, 2.0 has no freezes? err... ok then...EbErT wrote:whoa, i had no idea you could move the cursor in and out of the window by going into options, so thanks for that info, sean.
also, I believe sean and i had corresponded a while back about the freezing that was going on with my mac and the game. As the versions were updated, the freezing appeared less and less, but if and when it did occasionaly occur, keyboard response to ANY commands (even the one you suggested) would not do anything. The keyboard would totally freeze up. Since sean and i could not figure what was going on, the only solution i saw was to play it safe with a windowed version, and since the mouse still works, to move out of the window and click forcequit with the cursor. That seems to be in the past now, because with the newest version i have had 0 freezes so far (and that's a relief!)
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