Fullscreen problems

OpenGL Development JOGL Development
#1

When I run in fullscreen mode it looks like I some times don’t get a conext. This is what I do:


myDevice = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment()
            .getDefaultScreenDevice();
            frame = new JFrame();
            frame.setUndecorated(true);
            graphicsDevice().setFullScreenWindow(frame);
            if (graphicsDevice().isDisplayChangeSupported()) {
                  graphicsDevice().setDisplayMode(displayMode);
            }
            canvas = A9RenderFactory.getFactory().createJOGLCanvas(this,capabilities);
            frame.getContentPane().add(canvas);
            frame.setVisible(true);

Bug or feature :wink:
// Tomas

#2

Does the JCanyon demo work for you? I’ve found that some workarounds are currently necessary on most platforms to get proper fullscreen with -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true. Download the source code for the JCanyon demo and look at the terrain.DBFlyer initialization code. If that doesn’t help please post again or file a simplified test case with the JOGL Issue Tracker.

BTW, what platform are you running on?

#3

We experienced this problem occasionally on several different system running winxp and win2k with different graphics cards with the earlier releases of JOGL. I guess that most cards that we have tried are NVIDIA GF3 to GF6.

The current system is Java 1.4.2_07, Athlon, Win2k and Nvidia GF3 and latest drivers and latest release of JOGL. I’ll look at the demo and make some stability test later.

Thanks
// Tomas

#4

For fullscreen mode correctness with JOGL you must specify -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true. Unfortunately that exposes some bugs in the GDI fullscreen path in the JDK which require application workarounds as in the JCanyon demo. Once those workarounds were in place I found fullscreen support to be very robust.

#5

It seems to work. I’ll try to do some stability testing on a couple of different systems here at Agency9.

Thanks
Tomas

#6

The solution seems to be stable :slight_smile: