Re: [cp-patches] FYI: primitive fullscreen mode support

[Roman Kennke]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 05.04.2005, 18:51 +0200 schrieb Robert Schuster:
> > I'm committing the attached patch that implements a primitive fullscreen
> > support on a peer independent level. Actually it does only resize and
> > relocate the fullscreen window. Peers that implement a real
> > (accelerated) fullscreen mode would override the setFullScreenWindow(),
> > getFullScreenWindow() and isFullScreenSupported() methods.
> > 
> Great! You have made GNU Classpath and all its dependent VMs superior by
> that because Sun's runtime does not FSEM on GNU/Linux.

Huh? On my box this works. Of course not in real accelerated mode, but
at least as good as my impl works.

>  (Btw: Is there
> are *real* fullscreen mode for application in X11 anyway?)

Sure. VMWare uses DGA, don't know about all those games, but I suppose
that they also use DGA at some point.

> > I wonder about the default of isFullScreenSupported in
> > java.awt.GraphicsDevice returning true. Does that make sense? Should it
> > be the other way, defaulting to false and requiring Devices that support
> > fullscreen to override it to return true?
> I favor changing this to false, too.

Hmm, I think I'll write a testcase and see how our beloved reference
behaves.

/Roman