> > Basically I don't know if lazarus CAN do what I need for this part... and > > before I can finalize design, I need to know if this will be a form > > inside the app or a sepperate program altogether acting as a plugin. > > I'm not sure that X/The Window manager can do what you want ? > This is not a Lazarus matter alone. That part at least I CAN answer. It can, there is a wm hint for this. The reason I know is that I have done it before. If you use SDL and create your screen with OR SDL_FullScreen it does exactly that . The real question is if you can do this in lazarus - I am pretty sure GTK ALSO has a function for it (not ABSOLUTELY sure in this case though).
I used the SDL plugin mechanism in direqcafe up to and including version 3.x - as I am starting on version 4.0 (with new name zycafe) I would LIKE if possible to do that WITHOUT the SDL dependency though. In theory somebody with sufficient knowledge of C and xlib should be able to figure out how it's done by looking at the SDL code, and possibly implementing something like an fs_FullScreen or perhaps a TFullScreen component based on it (e.g. a nonvisual component you can drop on a form to make the form fullscreen which also lets you set parameters like 'grab keyboard' or such) ? For windows the sheer AMOUNT of existing full-screen apps suggest there is a almost certainly a win32 API call for it. I won't lie and pretend I am good enough at C and Xlib to do it by myself (I could but I don't have the TIME for all the research I would need to do first) but if anybody else would have a use for such a function, we could work together on it. I have done some xlib work in lazarus before TScreenSize uses it under Linux. Either way - the consensus seems to be that lazarus cannot do it at present ? A.J. -- "80% Of a hardware engineer's job is application of the uncertainty principle. 80% of a software engineer's job is pretending this isn't so." A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International http://www.getopenlab.com | +27 83 455 99 78 (South Africa) http://www.silentcoder.co.za | +55 118 162 2079 (Brazil)
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