Switching between fullscreen and windowed in Mac OS X

Question

I have a project in the works with OpenGL and SDL. Users have the option of using a full-screen or windowed mode for the display.

I use SDL_SetVideoMode to set up the window, but this solution destroys the original SDL_Surface context (so all my OpenGL textures get cleaned too).

How can I correctly switch between full-screen and windowed mode without textures cleaning?

Answer 1

You need to reload all your textures unfortunately. This is neccesary because SDL recreates the context. It's an SDL issue that is planned to be fixed someday.

More info here.