On 10-Feb-05, at 9:39 PM, Christian Schmitz wrote:
Martin Fitzgibbons <martin at rushsoftware dot com dot au> wrote:
What would be the neatest and easiest way to have your app change the
resolution of the client computer automatically to your window size?
...
PS: Of course the MBS Plugins include resolution change classes.
Just be careful with the MBS methods in Mac builds 'cause they'll
re-arrange and/or resize any open windows, and the desktop items. This
is a touchy subject with many gamers, and it's generally considered bad
form to mess with other applications unless your app is specifically
designed to do so.
I wrote the Display Overlord plugin (available here:
<http://developer.chaoticbox.com/>) to avoid this problem, but it uses
a nasty hack in OS X in order to get RB windows to sit on top of the
coregraphics shielding window. Apple specifically warns that this is
unsupported functionality, so there's no guarantee it'll work in future
versions of OS X.
NOTE: MBS has CoreGraphics methods that allow you to capture a screen
on OS X much like Display Overlord does on that platform, but I
wouldn't place that route in the "neatest and easiest" category, and
you're still faced with the problem that no RB windows will actually be
visible after the fact.
To sum up: MBS is probably easiest for Win32, Display Overlord is
probably easiest for Mac OS 8/9, and it also currently works on OS X,
but in the end there's no "safe" way to get an RB window to draw on a
captured OS X display no matter how you go about it.
Frank.
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