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detecting fullscreen on mac

I am writing an IM client for Mac (in python, but an Objective C / Cocoa solution here is fine). I want to detect whether or not the user is currently watching a movie or playing a game in the foreground, or doing anything else that takes up the entire screen. If so, I won't play a sound when a new IM comes in, but if not, I will play th...

Detecting if fullscreen is allowed in ActionScript 3.0?

I would like to remove a fullscreen button if the allowfullscreen param is false.       param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" Does anyone know if its possible to detect that value? It doesn't come with other flashvars on loaderInfo.parameters. ...

iPhone web app startup screen

I'm working on an iPhone web app where I'm using the "apple-mobile-web-app-capable" meta tag to get "full screen mode". When I lauch the app it shows a picture of the page where I left of the last time while it loads. It looks like the app is ready to receive input when it is not, and that's confusing. Is it possible to change the defa...

How do I set the window / screen size in xna?

How can I adjust the size of the window in XNA. Default it starts in a 800x600 resolution. ...

Full-screen Shoes application?

I looked around the documentation but found nothing - is there a way to make a Shoes app display full screen? Possibly something like.. Shoes.app :fullscreen => true do para "test" end Looking in the source-code, the following lines mentioning "fullscreen" (among others): shoes/app.c:58: app->fullscreen = FALSE; shoes/native/coco...

Change cursor in GL fullscreen on OSX using cocoa?

Can anyone provide a sample / link to a sample Cocoa app that changes the 'hardware' cursor in a fullscreen OpenGL Cocoa app? I have been able to create a full screen GL app and an app that changes the cursor by overriding NSView::resetCursorRects but I have not been able to get both to work simultaneously. I've also refitted some of t...

Going fullscreen on secondary monitor

How can you program a dotNet Windows (or WPF) Application in order to let it going fullscreen on the secondary monitor? ...

How do I center a UIImageView within a full-screen UIScrollView?

In my application, I would like to present the user with a full-screen photo viewer much like the one used in the Photos app. This is just for a single photo and as such should be quite simple. I just want the user to be able to view this one photo with the ability to zoom and pan. I have most of it working. And, if I do not center my U...

Windows Utility to force application fullscreen?

In short: Is there a utility for Windows XP that will force a window to be fullscreen? Why? I've written an application in Shoes, which I want to display it fullscreen (as a Kisok-type thing).. As I discovered with this question, Shoes does not currently have a :fullscreen option (until the next release). So the options seem to be, ...

Running .NET Form fullscreen

I'd like my application to be run as "fullscreen" much like a powerpoint presentation is ran. The title bar is gone and the menu bar is also gone. I dont think it should be too complicated but I just can't find how to do it ...

How to call setUndecorated() after a frame is made visible?

In my Swing application, I want the ability to switch between decorated and undecorated without recreating the entire frame. However, the API doesn't let me call setUndecorated() after the frame is made visible. Even if i call setVisible(false), isDisplayable() still returns true. The API says the only way to make a frame not-displayabl...

.NET fullscreen two monitors

I'm working on a multi-monitor kiosk application that needs to run full-screen on both monitors. I'm using C# and the standard winforms library. I've used a full-screen method for a single monitor with success, but I don't know how to get it full screen on both monitors. ...

Allow Silverlight (and Flash) Apps To Remain Full Screen

I'm writing a Silverlight application that can go "full screen" (think YouTube full screen). This is simple enough. However, I want to offer the user the ability to KEEP the app full screen even if they click away. My users have multiple monitors and so it doesn't always make sense to shrink the app back into the browser. At present, if...

Overlaying on a 3D fullscreen application

I want to display some custom graphics on top of a 3rd party fullscreen Windows application. Have you played any Steam games? It has an executable, GameOverlayUI.exe that lets you access Steam windows from within a game. (The GUI elements look custom-drawn, I don't know if that is a necessity; but they look exactly the same inside a gam...

Flash player 10 - full screen mode and keyboard

I am writing Flash app (Flash Player 10, AS 3.0) that is full screen capable. I got that part sorted (allowFullscreen=true, stage.displayState). I would like to give users ability to tab through the items there and activate them using space (MouseEvent.CLICK ;-). I know that any keyboard actions are blocked in full screen mode. This Ado...

when visual studio is in full screen mode, how to bring taskbar "always on top"?

How to bring the taskbar on top of Visual Studio 2008 when in "Full Screen" mode? I often go full screen, but the task bar will become hidden. How can I keep the task bar from hiding? The rationale behind this is: - We use google talk, for our quick communication in our office. So, when I go full screen, I am not able to see the IM no...

Hiding Title in a Fullscreen mode?

Is there a way to hide the window title so that it won't get shown in fullscreen mode ( getWindow().setFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN) ) but then will appear upon getWindow().clearFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN) ? requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE) is not an option of cours...

Change Silverlight Full Screen Background Color

I have a 800x600 screen resolution silverlight application.When i use the code to make it full screen, ( i have current screen resolution of 1280x1024) it shows white background around my 800x600 black box. i tried changing canvas background color and UserControl background color property but no effects. is there any way to change th...

Fullscreen Key Down Actions

Hi Everyone: I am making a test fullscreen application using this guide: http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000028.php. However, I am running into a problem when I want to get key input. For some reason, it seems that when you set the NSPanel to take up the screen, you also loose the ability for it to get the key down events. I ...

How can i take snapshot of command prompt window in full screen mode.

Hi all, I need to take snapshot if command prompt window running in full screen mode. I had tried it using PrintScreen,Ctrl+PrintScreen, Ctrl+Alt+PrintScreen button(s) but nothing seems to work Also are there any reasons that the print screen button does not work in full screen commandprompt mode? After all, it does for all windows u...