Re: [AD] support for toggling fullscreen

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri February 5 2010, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On 5 Feb 2010, at 12:13 , Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > I just noticed that Apple is using fullscreen all the timer after all.
> > E.g. if I use "quick look" on any file in Finder it has a fullscreen
> > button. Same in itunes.
> 
> Sure. I never said it's impossible to set a fullscreen mode. Just that
>  you can't easily take a window and tell it to go make itself fullscreen.

I don't think this feature means you need a special fullscreen mode at all. 
All it does is remove, (or hide offscreen) the window decorations, and 
resize the rest of the window to fit.


> > In both cases it simply fades the whole screen
> > to black without ever changing modes.
> 
> Allegro programs do that if I set a fullscreen mode at the native
>  resolution of my display. At least I'm fairly certain that's what it
>  looks like when I do that.
> 
> > Also if I enable the thing that
> > moving to screen edges does various stuff it can draw to the whole
> > screen and not just a window.
> >
> > Neither Adobe Flash Player nor those OSX apps are open source of course
> > so can't look how they do it but at least I'm sure now with it being
> > such a standard thing also in OSX there should be some example code for
> > it around somewhere.
> 
> It's sometimes hard to find, in my experience. Apple's developer site is
>  good, but I find that quite often it doesn't quite have what I want.
> 
> > But yes, I wouldn't be surprised if behind the scenes it requires
> > creating a new OpenGL context which means it will not be so easy to
> > implement :/
> 
> I guess the difference between Allegro's windowed and fullscreen modes is
>  this: in the windowed case we use an NSWindow, which captures events for
>  us. In the fullscreen mode we need to capture events ourselves. How easy
>  it is to do this differently (if this is possible at all) I don't know,
>  but that's part of what will determine how hard or easy it is to
>  implement this.
> 
> Personally I don't see what's wrong with telling the user to create a new
>  display, except it doesn't look as fancy. ;)
> 
> Evert
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