Hi, I'm creating a basic Cocoa OpenGL shell so that I can plug in some small OpenGL PC games to port, to get a feel for some porting. I got a windowed OpenGL context (NSOpenGLView subclass) up and running fine (although I didn't implement the dock-minimizing... shame on me ) At any rate, I am trying to implement fullscreen/windowed modes, and I'm not sure the correct way to go about doing this. I'm having problems using Core Graphics implementation for some reason. I was thinking about using the method described here:

http://zerobyzero.ca/~ktatters/tutorials/tutorial0.html

But I'm not sure if this is a proper way to go about doing this. What's the best way to do this?

http://onesadcookie.is-a-geek.net/Creati...ames.xhtml

I'd recommend using the method described here:

http://onesadcookie.is-a-geek.net/Creati...ames.xhtml

[Edit: Damn, beat me to it!]

- Alex Diener

the original tutorial linked looks like it's missing a whole bunch of stuff required to make this work properly. My example should work everywhere, I hope

Thanks, this helps tremendously. OneSadCookie, I've seen your name around a lot (I think from the opengl.org forums?) Then I read your blog and read about your rant on OpenGL drivers on the Mac. Has things changed since then? I work for a company that may or may not be related to Macs that may or may not deal with games that may or may not test against certain OS's that may or may not include Tiger. Things break left and right

Indie Mac Wrote:I work for a company that may or may not be related to Macs that may or may not deal with games that may or may not test against certain OS's that may or may not include Tiger. Things break left and right

Basically, it seems that if you stick to the path well traveled, you should be OK. Obviously, Tiger ain't gonna be that yet, but in OpenGL terms Apple is eating a lot more of their own dog food in Tiger (CoreImage, Quartz 2D Extreme), so I'm hopeful in an abstract kind of way. The point of the betas though, is to make sure the bugs aren't in the release, so submit, submit, submit.

At this point, I still don't consider ARB_vertex_program, ARB_fragment_program, SGIS_generate_mipmap, PBuffers, and a few other more recent extensions, to be ready for prime-time. Basic OpenGL 1.1 functionality seems to have been working OK for a couple of OS revisions now though, and I'm hopeful that Doom III and the new Tiger tech will push at least those extensions above into full workingness in the near term.