Re: [GD-Windows] Going fullscreen

[Eero P. <epa...@ko...>]

Simon O'Connor wrote:

> If you use CreateWindowEx() instead of CreateWindow(), there is am extended
> style called WS_EX_TOPMOST which should get you more reliable results.
> 

Thanks, that looks promising. Looking at the MSDN docs, it appears I could get
the same effect using SetWindowPos?  (Checking this because it might
be easier to integrate to freeglut)

> You probably also want to add some extra code to handle cases where your
> window isn't the focus though so that things like Alt-Tab work don't crash
> your program or reduce the usability of the OS. This can be as simple as
> handling the WM_ACTIVATE message in your message procedure and keeping an
> "am_I_the_active_app" flag to decide whether to update your stuff.
> 
> Returning HTCLIENT for WM_NCHITTEST messages when in fullscreen is a good
> idea too. That fools Windows into not detecting clicks on non-client areas
> of the window such as the menu at the top left.
> 

I will see how the TOPMOST change affects Alt-tab behavior (currently it works
  ok). For this specific case there there wont be  a significant problem anyways,
the end user won't probably even have access to the keyboard/mouse...



		Eero