RE: [Plib-devel] Fullscreen mode for PW

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Steve Baker writes:
> 
> Norman Vine wrote:
> >
> > Note "f" key should swap between fullscreen and windowed mode
> > in examples / src / pw_pui.exe 
> > 
> > Does a Linux and an OSX developer have code todo this ?
> 
> No - and I'm told it's very difficult to do across all window
> managers in X.  From what I understand (and I'm *not* an expert),
> you essentially have to shut down the window and open a new one.
> 
> However if you did that in a running OpenGL application, you'd
> lose all of the textures, display lists, shaders, etc that had
> already been stored - so it's not trivial for PW.

Hmm... 

I don't know any better ...   and ...
I don't have an X box so I can't test this ...  but .... 
maybe the attached is a start.  :-)

Cheers

Norman