Re: [AD] Feature-freeze?

[Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 26 Mar 2010, at 11:09 , Elias Pschernig wrote:
> It depends on the reason why it could fail.

Because "fullscreen window" doesn't exist on that particular platform (which is the case for OS X prior to 10.5, and may be the case for future platforms).
Admittedly you can fake it on 10.4 by making a fullscreen window without a title bar and placing it above the menu and the dock.

> Will all future calls to al_create_display fail as well? Will all future calls with the FULLSCREEN_WINDOW flag fail? Or may future calls succeed?

Why does that matter for what should happen if you don't support the FULLSCREEN_WINDOW flag on a particular platform?

It matters as to what the user should do when the call fails (quit the application, repeat the call with other flags,...). In this case (it simply isn't supported on < 10.5) I agree with your solution - just ignore it and create a window anyway.