Change Display mode???
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Hello everybody, I come directly to the point. I want to make a simple game that starts with a DialogBox(using MFC probably?) and then the user can choose between windowed mode and fullscreen(graphics) mode so I could use the OpenGL libraries.The problem is that I can't figure out how to create the fullscreen mode after the user pushes the coresponding button.Do I have to use any API functions or MFC?
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Hello everybody, I come directly to the point. I want to make a simple game that starts with a DialogBox(using MFC probably?) and then the user can choose between windowed mode and fullscreen(graphics) mode so I could use the OpenGL libraries.The problem is that I can't figure out how to create the fullscreen mode after the user pushes the coresponding button.Do I have to use any API functions or MFC?
Getting the basics done won't be too hard, but handling some more complex actions will be (I'll explain that in a minute). To create a full-screen window, you will need to create a window type that grabs the whole screen instead of the client area. You can look at some of the screen saver examples on this site for that, or look at some of the OpenGL and/or DirectX examples all over the internet. The tricky part is going to be handling things like Alt-Tab (which means a loss/restore of the screen device and all input devices). Instead of showing the dialog, you could approach it the way that most games do these days and allow for a command line switch (if you use the DirectX helper classes, this is built in for you). I'm not sure if the OpenGL libraries give that to you for free, but I've seen a number of samples that allow for it, so at the very least, it wouldn't be too difficult to find a solution for it. If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac
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Hello everybody, I come directly to the point. I want to make a simple game that starts with a DialogBox(using MFC probably?) and then the user can choose between windowed mode and fullscreen(graphics) mode so I could use the OpenGL libraries.The problem is that I can't figure out how to create the fullscreen mode after the user pushes the coresponding button.Do I have to use any API functions or MFC?
http://nehe.gamedev.net/[^] has some good tutorials. I think Lesson 2 shows how to toggle between windowed and full screen mode.
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http://nehe.gamedev.net/[^] has some good tutorials. I think Lesson 2 shows how to toggle between windowed and full screen mode.
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Unfortunatelly NeHe doesn't explain how to do that using MFC,only using windows API and its very difficult to create a dialog box by this way
