On 06-Feb-2002 Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 15:17, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> On this topic (forgive me I am not a gamer and generally do not own cool >> enough >> hardware to run most games) what does 'fullscreen mode' mean? Is this >> something like DGA? I suspect I will have to track down the source and >> look. > > Not sure of the complete technical breakdown in terms of what it means > to Blackbox, but in essence "Fullscreen" items take over the complete > display (no decoration of any kind). I don't believe this requires > DGA. If it would help, I could whip up a really minor fullscreen SDL > application (any video card should be able to run it) for testing with. > > Jamin W. Collins
hmmmmm, on initial reading of the SDL code they simply raise the window to the top and make it cover the whole screen. Near as I can see they set no special hint or flag letting the wm know this. Best thing blackbox could do at that point would be refusing to raise the dialog if the parent was not visible. But then that raises other issues. Not sure what the right approach is here.
