Re: [VirtualGL-Devel] Mac OS X 10.7/10.8 full screen mode

[James W. <jam...@mo...>]

DRC,

Thanks for the update!

Is your Mac powerful enough to run a virtual Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) instance? I have
a virtual OS X 10.8 instance running within VMWare Fusion on OS X 10.7, which is a lot 
cheaper than buying a new Mac to test OS X 10.8.

One thing you should be aware of in OS X 10.8 is Gatekeeper.  The default security setting
is to only allow applications downloaded from the Mac App Store and from identified
developers, so when I double-click on the TurboVNC pkg, I get a message saying 
"TurboVNC.pkg can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer".  As a
workaround, the user can just right-click it and select Open from the pop-up menu, but the
Apple-recommended approach is to use a code-signing certificate.  I've tried doing this
with a standard code-signing certificate, but the only way I could get OS X 10.8 to
acknowledge me as an "identified developer" was to use an official Apple code-signing
certificate, which is free, but only after paying $100 per year to join the Apple
developer program.

I have tested the Java Swing full-screen mode code that I referred you to, and on 
OS X 10.7, it doesn't just add a non-functional full-screen button to the window's title
bar - it functions just the same as full-screen mode in other Mac OS X
applications.  And I have also tested programmatically toggling full-screen mode
with success, using:

com.apple.eawt.Application.getApplication().requestToggleFullScreen(turboVncViewport);

I've also tested event-handling, which seems to work on OS X 10.7 (Java 1.6.0_37) :

com.apple.eawt.FullScreenUtilities.addFullScreenListenerTo(turboVncViewport, new com.apple.eawt.FullScreenAdapter() {
  public void windowEnteringFullScreen(com.apple.eawt.AppEvent.FullScreenEvent fse) {
    System.out.println("TurboVNC viewport entering full-screen.");
  }
  public void windowEnteredFullScreen(com.apple.eawt.AppEvent.FullScreenEvent fse) {
    System.out.println("TurboVNC viewport entered full-screen.");
  }
  public void windowExitingFullScreen(com.apple.eawt.AppEvent.FullScreenEvent fse) {
    System.out.println("TurboVNC viewport exiting full-screen.");
  }
  public void windowExitedFullScreen(com.apple.eawt.AppEvent.FullScreenEvent fse) {
    System.out.println("TurboVNC viewport exited full-screen.");
  }
});

Feel free to send me a build (or SVN branch) of your attempts to do this, 
and I can test it on OS X 10.7 and 10.8.

I'll ask my boss how much time we can justify me spending on this.

Cheers,
James

On 20/02/2013, at 7:01 PM, DRC wrote

> Just FYI-- I've been looking into this full-screen issue, and I'm afraid 
> it's a little more complicated than just invoking the code at the link 
> below.  What that code does is enable a full-screen button at the upper 
> right of the window, but it's up to the app to actually listen for the 
> full-screen notification.  As you can imagine, figuring out how to make 
> this properly interact with our existing mechanism of enabling 
> full-screen mode could take some time.  I'm happy to accept code 
> contributions.  Otherwise, I would need to secure funding for my time to 
> upgrade my machine to Lion and really dig into the issue the right way.
> 
> 
> On 12/2/12 5:58 PM, James Wettenhall wrote:
>> The full-screen mode checkbox in the Java TurboVNC Viewer application
>> doesn't appear to provide true OS X 10.7 / 10.8 full-screen mode (hiding
>> the menu bar and the dock).
>> 
>> Are there any plans to implement that?
>> 
>> I just tried the Java code from the accepted answer on this Stack
>> Overflow page, and it seemed to work fine on my OS X 10.7 machine:
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873568/fullscreen-feature-for-java-apps-on
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873568/fullscreen-feature-for-java-apps-on-osx-lion>-osx-lion
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873568/fullscreen-feature-for-java-apps-on-osx-lion>
>> 
>> and according to the Stack Overflow page, the code is quietly ignored on
>> OS X 10.6.
>> 
>> So I guess it should be possible to implement this in the Java TurboVNC
>> Viewer?
>> 
>> We've been trying to "sell" the idea of using a remote desktop to some
>> of our Mac OS X users, but they have said that having both the Mac OS X
>> dock/menu-bar and the remote desktop's icons/menu makes the screen
>> appear cluttered and confusing.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> James
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