Compact view
Compact view in the Play menu opens a small window that stays on top of other windows. It is the Play screen with everything but the essentials left out: the dial, the setup, the status words and the one button.
What is in it
- The dial and the status words, as on the Play screen.
- The setup as a drop-down, to switch (Switching setups).
- A line of words above the button: what stands in the way ("Not ready: TrackIR: Not running and 2 more"), or what the last action came to.
- The one button: Make ready and launch, Launch, Make ready or Stand down, chosen the same way as on the Play screen (Make ready and launch). Enter presses it.
- Re-check, and Stand down as a small link. Stand down from here closes the helper apps and always leaves a running game alone.
- The session line: "DCS World is running" with the clock, and Welcome back when the game closes (Sessions and history). While the countdown to Stand down runs, the line counts down and has Cancel (Stand down). After that it says in one line what Stand down did, or why it did not start; hold the pointer over a line that is cut short to read all of it.
- A button at the top right that opens the full window.
The window remembers where you left it.
Launch anyway
Pressing Launch on a rig that is Not ready turns the button into Launch anyway, with Cancel next to it, and the line says what is missing. When Make ready and launch stops because something required still needs you, the same happens. When a step before launch failed and is set to stop the launch, its message is shown and Launch anyway goes on past it. Launch anyway is always a click, never Enter.
What it leaves to the full window
A fix or a launch step that runs a program you have to confirm (Scripts) is shown to you before it runs, and there is no room for that here. The button is then greyed and the line says: "This setup runs a program that is shown to you first. That is done in the full window." Open the full window and run it from there.