I was playing a bit with Cocoa and full screen and I wrote a quick blog entry about it: http://everburning.com/news/going-fullscreen-with-medium/
I'm not sure if it's the correct way, or the best way, but it does seem to work for me (although I believe it will limit the OS version you can run under). dan On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Dennis Munsie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case, what I am trying to accomplish is something along the > lines of how Keynote and Powerpoint behave. I only want to take over > one display, most likely connected up to a projector. But, I also > occasionally want to have it in a window. I'm not expecting any > controls to work -- this is strictly a view-only window. > > Also -- the code currently works just fine for the case of a single > display machine or when the window is on the main display. I just > need to make it work when the window is on another display. > > thanks! > dennis > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Ricky Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Ack. Do not expect to use AppKit with a captured display. I really > wish > > all those archived code examples out there would just vanish; just leads > to > > more folks doing this. > > > > Anyhow, if you really must capture the display using the CG APIs, > please > > note that there's different mechanisms for getting data onto the screen. > > Search cocoa-dev and quartz-dev for the details on why you cannot use > AppKit > > with captured displays. > > > > If you must use AppKit, you can always use a call to SetSystemUIMode > (to > > hide menu bar and dock). Then, enumerate all screens and put up > "blanking" > > windows on each one. Then, put up your "content" window over a > particular > > blanking one. See the child window APIs for how you can ensure that the > > content window is never brought forward over the blanking one. > > > > This latter approach is what I've done for the past few years and has > > worked great. > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Ricky A. Sharp mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Instant Interactive(tm) http://www.instantinteractive.com > > > > > > > > -- > dennis > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dj2%40withinepsilon.com > > This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
