Full Screen Issues
Post: #1
So, if you've been following Illuminations, you know that I've been having some full screen problems. Essentially, on some computers the system freezes or locks up when switching to full screen mode. I'm just about at my wit's end here, so consider this a plea for help. Here's my full screen toggle code (removed all the error detection and what not):
Basically, I have an NSOpenGLView and two windows, one regular size and one fullscreen. And I set the OGLView between them. I do it this way because it's easy, it allows me to continue to receive events like normal, and allows me to easily have a windowed mode (which is what I personally prefer).
This code works fine on all my testing machines, and only seems to lock up on ATI cards. However, it doesn't lock up on *all* ATI cards, as two of my testing machines have them and work fine. Does anyone see any problems with that code? Also, if you have an ATI card can you please try Illuminations in full screen mode (hit return) and tell me if it locks up or works fine (be sure to save any important documents first
). Please post your system, video card, and when it locks up (right away, during the fade, after the fade, when returning to window mode, etc).
Code:
- (void) toggleFullscreen
{
CGDisplayReservationInterval seconds = 2.0;
CGDisplayFadeReservationToken newToken;
unsigned int windowStyle;
NSRect contentRect;
if (isFullscreen)
{
CGAcquireDisplayFadeReservation(seconds, &newToken);
CGDisplayFade(newToken, 0.3, kCGDisplayBlendNormal, kCGDisplayBlendSolidColor, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, true);
[fullscreenWindow close];
[startingWindow setContentView:self];
[startingWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:self];
[startingWindow makeFirstResponder:self];
CGReleaseAllDisplays();
isFullscreen = NO;
CGDisplayFade(newToken, 0.5, kCGDisplayBlendSolidColor, kCGDisplayBlendNormal, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, false);
CGReleaseDisplayFadeReservation(newToken);
}
else
{
CGAcquireDisplayFadeReservation(seconds, &newToken);
CGDisplayFade(newToken, 0.3, kCGDisplayBlendNormal, kCGDisplayBlendSolidColor, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, true);
CGCaptureAllDisplays();
startingWindow = [NSApp keyWindow];
windowStyle = NSBorderlessWindowMask;
contentRect = [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame];
fullscreenWindow = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:contentRect
styleMask:windowStyle backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered defer:NO screen:[NSScreen mainScreen]];
[fullscreenWindow setTitle:@"Illuminations"];
[fullscreenWindow setReleasedWhenClosed:YES];
[fullscreenWindow setContentView:self];
[fullscreenWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:self];
[fullscreenWindow setLevel:CGShieldingWindowLevel()];
[fullscreenWindow makeFirstResponder:self];
isFullscreen = YES;
CGDisplayFade(newToken, 0.5, kCGDisplayBlendSolidColor, kCGDisplayBlendNormal, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, false);
CGReleaseDisplayFadeReservation(newToken);
}
}Basically, I have an NSOpenGLView and two windows, one regular size and one fullscreen. And I set the OGLView between them. I do it this way because it's easy, it allows me to continue to receive events like normal, and allows me to easily have a windowed mode (which is what I personally prefer).
This code works fine on all my testing machines, and only seems to lock up on ATI cards. However, it doesn't lock up on *all* ATI cards, as two of my testing machines have them and work fine. Does anyone see any problems with that code? Also, if you have an ATI card can you please try Illuminations in full screen mode (hit return) and tell me if it locks up or works fine (be sure to save any important documents first
). Please post your system, video card, and when it locks up (right away, during the fade, after the fade, when returning to window mode, etc).
Post: #2
No ATi card, sorry.
For the purposes of the contest, you might consider disabling in-game switching for now, and just let them select which mode they want on an opening dialog (which you may already have, I haven't had a chance to play many of the games yet.) I think such a limitation is less obvious to a player than a hard crash. Buy yourself some time!
But hopefully someone else will know what's wrong.
For the purposes of the contest, you might consider disabling in-game switching for now, and just let them select which mode they want on an opening dialog (which you may already have, I haven't had a chance to play many of the games yet.) I think such a limitation is less obvious to a player than a hard crash. Buy yourself some time!
But hopefully someone else will know what's wrong.
Measure twice, cut once, curse three or four times.
Post: #3
Tried it on an iMac G5 with ATI Radeon X600XT. Crashed when I pressed enter at the screen with the advertisement for OMG Cup (went all black, had to reboot), but works well with fullscreen otherwise.
Post: #4
9600 Pro PC & Mac Edition -- I hit return twice rather quickly, and got back to windowed mode before it hung the entire machine.
Post: #5
No ATI card to test here but are you sure it's hanging the *system* and not just hanging the app after capturing the screen? If you hit and hold the force-quit keys for a few seconds OS X can usually recover from these sorts of things.
Post: #6
the GUI is completely hung.
even ssh'ing in and killing illuminations doesn't fix the problem.
even ssh'ing in and killing illuminations doesn't fix the problem.
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