Question about fullscreen mode

Post by **giliath** » Mon May 01, 2006 11:50 am

Woot 1.0 work is almost done. We are just doing the last bit of release-tech work and you should see it soon.

RPTroll · Post by **RPTroll** » Mon May 01, 2006 1:05 pm

/me gets out the bag of snickers, party hats and horns and gets ready to celebrate.

Post by **trevor** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:52 pm

Playing with full screen mode with two monitors, I noticed some weirdness. The correct monitor goes full screen, but if I click on an app in the other monitor, it minimizes the full screen app. Found this:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bu ... id=6393266

Basically what it says is that this is expected behavior based on how DirectDraw works in windows. So bummed !

I figure having a multihead setup is pretty common, that that's not going to work. Instead I'm looking at creating a "Minimal View" mode which removes the outside frame, menubar, status bar, and everything that's not the map. This would then be maximized to the screen size, so in effect give a full screen application, but not be in "exclusive" mode.

brisingre · Post by **brisingre** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:52 pm

/me cheers and happily puts on some of RPTrolls party horns.
/w emryys do you think there will be kobolds to eat?

Post by **trevor** » Wed May 03, 2006 9:11 am

K, got this new methodology implemented and it seems to work really well, even on dual head setups. It doesn't support the pop-in panels when you hit the edge, but I figure it will at least support the most common full screen setup.

I'll close the current tracker then add an "Advanced fullscreen mode" tracker that includes the pop-in panels.

Can't wait for you guys to try this out

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 05, 2006 1:15 pm

[quote="trevor"]Playing with full screen mode with two monitors, I noticed some weirdness. The correct monitor goes full screen, but if I click on an app in the other monitor, it minimizes the full screen app. Found this:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bu ... id=6393266
[quote]

Yeah after years of dual sceens in my systems, they can be finiky. MAC has that area covered much better.

Keep in mind that having things like the nVidia nView Desktop manager can change how a lot of things act. I'm sure ATI is the same. I'm sure it will be a big can of worms. Even after all these years I still get funny stuff with many programs in dual on PC.