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I like to play video games. I also have a significant other, and she often walks into the room to talk to me while I'm playing a video game. I would like to pause the game so that I can give her my undivided attention while she's talking to me, but a lot of games (particularly single-player ones) have these "un-pausable" cut scenes or other areas of the game where the normal pause functionality doesn't work. This annoys both me and her, because I'm supposed to be the computer expert, and it looks like I don't even know how to pause my stupid video game. So usually what ends up happening is I skip the cut scene and miss the story, or upset my SO by not paying attention to her as well as I should.
So that is why I wrote Universal Pause Button. It's a very simple Windows desktop app that sits in the system tray. Its icon resembles a pause button. When you hit the actual Pause key (also known as Break) on your keyboard, the program determines which window is currently in the foreground (i.e. your game's window,) and pauses it. No matter where you are in the game. Even in the middle of one of those pesky cut scenes that would otherwise be un-pausable. When you press the key again (as long as you haven't since re-focused to another window,) the game will un-pause.
As of v1.0.3 you can now customize the "Pause" key that you want to use. Read the settings.txt file. The program reads the custom pause key from the settings.txt file during startup.
I've currently been testing this with The Witcher 3, and it is working great. However, your mileage may vary. "Pausing" processes is something that usually only debuggers do, and I can't predict how your game will react to it. Pausing processes may lead to race conditions among the threads of that process, but like I said, testing has been very positive for me so far. I've already gotten great value out of the program, as there are lots of cut scenes in The Witcher 3, that I don't want to skip. The main use case for this app is single player games, as pausing your multi-player game will undoubtedly just get you kicked from the session, as if your computer had just crashed or hung. So don't use it in multi-player games. It also works on applications that are not games at all.
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Create a .ignore file for a package binary.
.DESCRIPTION
Chocolatey automatically creates a "shim" in a special folder, on your
machine's PATH, for any executables found in the package's installation
directory. This is helpful when installing ZIP packages or any kind of
command line tools.
Chocolatey can be instructed to ignore a particular binary by creating a file
at the same path with the same name as the binary to ignore, except ending
with the file extension ".ignore".
This function creates that file, given the binary's path.
.PARAMETER Path
The path of the binary to ignore.
This parameter also accepts multiple paths or pipeline input.
.EXAMPLE
New-IgnoreBin -Path "foo.exe"
.EXAMPLE
New-IgnoreBin -Path $foo, $bar
.EXAMPLE
Get-ChildItem "$content\foo\*.exe" | New-IgnoreBin
.LINK
https://github.com/AnthonyMastrean/chocolateypackages/blob/master/helpers/bins.ps1
#>
function New-IgnoreBin {
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[ValidateScript({ Test-Path $_ })]
[string[]] $Path
)
PROCESS {
foreach($item in $Path) {
New-Item "$(Resolve-Path $item).ignore" -Type "File" -Force | Out-Null
}
}
}
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Create a .gui file for a package binary.
.DESCRIPTION
Chocolatey automatically creates a "shim" in a special folder, on your
machine's PATH, for any executables found in the package's installation
directory. This is helpful when installing ZIP packages or any kind of
command line tools.
Chocolatey can be instructed to treat a particular binary as a GUI application,
meaning it will START the binary in a separate process and not block the
console, by creating a file at the same path with the same name as the binary,
except ending with the file extension ".gui".
This function creates that file, given the binary's path.
.PARAMETER Path
The path of the binary to treat as a GUI application.
This parameter also accepts multiple paths or pipeline input.
.EXAMPLE
New-GuiBin -Path "foo.exe"
.EXAMPLE
New-GuiBin -Path $foo, $bar
.EXAMPLE
Get-ChildItem "$content\foo\*.exe" | New-GuiBin
.LINK
https://github.com/AnthonyMastrean/chocolateypackages/blob/master/helpers/bins.ps1
#>
function New-GuiBin {
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[ValidateScript({ Test-Path $_ })]
[string[]] $Path
)
PROCESS {
foreach($item in $Path) {
New-Item "$(Resolve-Path $item).gui" -Type "File" -Force | Out-Null
}
}
}
$id = "universalpausebutton"
$name = "Universal Pause Button"
$tools = Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
. $tools\shortcut.ps1
Remove-Shortcut -Link $name -SpecialFolder "CommonPrograms"
Remove-Shortcut -Link $name -SpecialFolder "CommonStartup"
<#
.SYNOPSIS
New-Shortcut creates a new shortcut to a file or program.
.DESCRIPTION
New-Shortcut wraps the COM Object, Wscript.Shell, and its arguments to create
a shortcut to a file or program. It requires some very specific input, please
review the notes on each parameter.
.PARAMETER Link
The shortcut to create.
The underlying COM Object requires an absolute path. This function will
attempt to properly expand that path, especially if you provide a
SpecialFolder as a root directory.
The underlying COM Object also requires that the link's path/name end in
either .lnk or .url. This function will attempt to add that file extension if
it is not provided.
The underlying COM Object will fail silently in many cases, especially due to
improperly formatted link paths. This function will test the existence of the
expected link using this parameter and fail if it is not found.
.PARAMETER Target
The target of the shortcut.
This path must exist. This function will attempt to expand the path to its
absolute value.
.PARAMETER SpecialFolder
The Windows special folder to contain this shortcut.
If you want to create a shortcut at one of the system managed paths, such as
the Desktop or the Start Menu, you should use the special tokens provided.
The most commonly used are
* CommonDesktop
* CommonStartup
* CommonPrograms
If you provide a special folder, the Link parameter may contain a simple
"name" and not a file path.
The full list of special folders can be found here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.specialfolder(v=vs.110).aspx
.PARAMETER Icon
The icon of the shortcut.
This can take several forms and, due to this, is not validated carefully. You
can provide an absolute file path (this is your responsibility), like
"C:\Windows\notepad.exe"
Or, you can provide an absolute file path and an index into the resources of
that program, like
"C:\Windows\notepad.exe, 1"
.PARAMETER Description
The tooltip to display on the shortcut.
.EXAMPLE
New-Shortcut -Link "foo" -Target "foo.exe" -SpecialFolder "CommonDesktop" -Description "The Foo program"
.EXAMPLE
Remove-Shortcut -Link "foo" -SpecialFolder "CommonDesktop"
.LINK
https://github.com/AnthonyMastrean/chocolateypackages/blob/master/helpers/shortcut.ps1
#>
function New-Shortcut {
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[string] $Link,
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[ValidateScript({ Test-Path $_ })]
[string] $Target,
[string] $SpecialFolder,
[string] $Icon,
[string] $Description
)
$Link = Resolve-ShortcutLink -Link $Link -SpecialFolder $SpecialFolder
$shell = New-Object -ComObject 'Wscript.Shell'
$shortcut = $shell.CreateShortcut($Link)
$shortcut.TargetPath = (Resolve-Path $Target)
$shortcut.WorkingDirectory = (Split-Path (Resolve-Path $Target))
if($Icon) {
$shortcut.IconLocation = $Icon
}
if($Description) {
$shortcut.Description = $Description
}
$shortcut.Save()
if(-not(Test-Path $Link)) {
throw "Failed to create shortcut: $Link"
}
}
function Remove-Shortcut {
[CmdletBinding()]
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[string] $Link,
[string] $SpecialFolder
)
$Link = Resolve-ShortcutLink -Link $Link -SpecialFolder $SpecialFolder
Remove-Item $Link -Force | Out-Null
}
function Resolve-ShortcutLink {
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[string] $Link,
[string] $SpecialFolder
)
if(-not($Link.ToLower().EndsWith('.lnk') -or $Link.ToLower().EndsWith('.url'))) {
$Link = "$Link.lnk"
}
if($SpecialFolder) {
$Link = Join-Path ([System.Environment]::GetFolderPath($SpecialFolder)) $Link
}
$ExecutionContext.SessionState.Path.GetUnresolvedProviderPathFromPSPath($Link)
}
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