Re: [Plib-users] fullscreen mode?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Mark Blythe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just started investigating PLIB, and I like what I've seen so
> far.  However, I have not yet seen a program using PLIB that will run in
> fullscreen mode, as opposed to in a window.  The Tux Herring game had an
> option to switch to fullscreen mode, but it didn't do anything on any of
> my machines.
> 
> Can it be done?  Does PLIB have fullscreen OpenGL support?  Are there any
> example programs that use it?

Fullscreen/not-Fullscreen isn't a function of either OpenGL or PLIB - it
only depends on the library you use for opening windows (which in the case
of TuxAQFH is 'GLUT').  So, if the library you use for creating and managing
windows has a 'full screen' command then use it and PLIB will be happy.

The only reason there was a special command in TuxAQFH is because it was
written back when the only hardware accellerated OpenGL for Linux used
the god-awful Voodoo-1/2 cards which could only do full-screen.

If you are using GLUT, there is an explicit full-screen command you can use.


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