Stupid tricks for vrml Browsers

[fabricator]

For those who don't know or have forgotten, Blaxxun Contact (and Spazz3d) won't open some locally stored files, one many Windows XP machines.

It is a problem with spaces in directory names, eg c:\vrml\myworld.wrl opens but c:\Program Files\Spazz3d doesn't (space in "Program Files").

Then there are the function keys in Blaxxun/BS Contact.
f1 - Help
f2 - Toggle Navigation type
f3 - Hold down and click somewhere to jump to that point
f6 - Control Pad in BS Contact, list of viewpoints basically
f7 - Displays Frame Per Second, polygon count and related information. Don't leave home without it.
f8 - display current position/orientation, simply add 1.75 to the y value in position and you can use it to make Viewpoint nodes.
f9 - Preferences
f11 - Save scene to cache folder, as it as at that moment.
f12 - BS Contact create movie menu.

[fabricator]

Another one for everyone, this is a useful change to windows itself as well.

Your typing some code or writing an email while a world is downloading, and suddenly it steals focus. Here is how to disable this stupid feature of windows.

Start > Run > regedit.exe
navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

and change the key 'ForegroundLockTimeout' using the modify option.

For windows Xp change it to : 0030d40
For Vista you need to switch modify from the BASE to DECIMAL.
Then replacing the 20000 that appears with a 0.

This also fixes the same steal focus problem in ExitReality chat, which is helpful due to the slower loading times of the chat itself. I'm sure others can name a list of 3d apps that also steal focus when they finish loading.