Wait Requester
The initial Wait Requester acts as a gate to all tinkergame configuration options.
If selected within a timeout, the Start Menu (by default the Main Menu) will open, otherwise the game starts seamlessly with all configurations set. It also
- shows when and how long the game was last played
- shows if and how many game-related config files were found
- shows if editable game config files are found
- and displays the overall ProtonDB Rating
The Wait requester will wait WAITEDITOR seconds for user input (either Space or the OK button)
When WAITEDITOR is set to 0 (in the Game Menu), tinkergame starts the game directly with the current configuration.
If MAXASK in the Global Config (f.e. via [Global Menu](https://github.com/360900/tinkergame/wiki/Global Menu)) is defined, the requester can be cancelled a maximum of MAXASK times
before WAITEDITOR is automatically set to 0 for the selected game.
Letting the requester timeout does not count as cancelled.
The "Cancelled counter" is stored directly in the Game Config as ASKCNT
and is reset to 0 when MAXASK is reached and WAITEDITOR is set to 0.
The Wait Requester can also be altered via Command Line using the waitrequester|wr command line option with an additional argument:
waitrequester|wr <option>
where <option>
can be one of:
-
e: nable the waitrequester for the launched game. (only useful for games where it has been permanently set to 0 viaWAITEDITOR(see above)) -
s:kip the Wait Requester temporarily (*1) for all upcoming games -
u: nskip the temporary(*1) waitrequester skip (only useful if a temporary skip was activated before)
*1: The Wait Requester is automatically skipped if the file /dev/shm/tinkergame/SWR.txt does exist.
This file is created via tinkergame wr s
and removed via tinkergame wr u.