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Cocoa/OpenGL drawing full-screen problem - ultitech - Jan 12, 2011 12:42 PM
Hey guys,
I have a little issue here. Im trying to make my NSOpenGLView fullscreen using apple's example here.
But when I toggle fullscreen my view gets all messed up.
I have a window with an OpenGL View and I want just this View to go fullscreen instead of the entire old window.
Code:
NSView *contentView = [[MyOpenGLView alloc] initWithFrame:viewRect pixelFormat: pixelFormat];
[fullscreenWindow setContentView:contentView];I would appreciate you help.
RE: Cocoa/OpenGL drawing full-screen problem - SethWillits - Jan 12, 2011 03:03 PM
You'll need to be more specific than "my view gets all messed up."
You can use NSView's enterFullScreenMode:withOptions: method to get the view fullscreen. It works with NSOpenGLView too. I'm not sure why Apple's docs don't show this yet.
RE: Cocoa/OpenGL drawing full-screen problem - ultitech - Jan 12, 2011 03:57 PM
Its like OpenGL crashes, pixel errors are all over the fullscreen. Is the method you described good in performance on fullscreen?
RE: Cocoa/OpenGL drawing full-screen problem - SethWillits - Jan 12, 2011 04:29 PM
If OpenGL crashed, your app or computer would crash with it. What you're seeing is just unwritten-to video memory. That can be caused by a few things.
On 10.5 the fullscreen OpenGL context that results from calling the enterFullScreenMode: method isn't really recognized by the system as being fullscreen, so there's a bit of performance loss, but the amount is insignificant. On 10.6+ it will recognize it, and there's absolutely zero performance loss. It's as fast as can be.
RE: Cocoa/OpenGL drawing full-screen problem - ultitech - Jan 13, 2011 08:54 AM
Thanks, works perfectly. But I can only access enterFullScreenMode from inside my NSOpenGLView, is that right?
RE: Cocoa/OpenGL drawing full-screen problem - SethWillits - Jan 13, 2011 01:11 PM
No, it's a public method on NSView just like any other. You can call it from anywhere you want using a pointer to the view. Cocoa doesn't use private methods.