[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/7879 Add an option to start a game in fullscreen by default.

[Ralph Versteegen]

On 27 March 2016 at 05:02,  <subversion at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
> teeemcee
> 2016-03-26 09:02:02 -0700 (Sat, 26 Mar 2016)
> 225
> Add an option to start a game in fullscreen by default.
>
> Overridden by absolutely anything else (five different ways to override it!)
>
> Also, don't apply the genFullscreen setting or gfx.fullscreen config when
> live-previewing.
> ---
> U   wip/const.bi
> U   wip/custom.bas
> U   wip/ohrhelp/window_settings_partial.txt
> U   wip/whatsnew.txt
> U   wip/yetmore2.bas

I tested the fullscreen options on X11/GNU/Linux, and both gfx_directx
and gfx_sdl on Win 10 and Win XP (running XP in Virtualbox).
Fulscreening in gfx_directx under Virtualbox crashes, but never mind.
I notice that gfx_directx handles fullscreening much better than
gfx_sdl: it doesn't change the monitor resolution (which leads to a
delay, momentary scrabbled graphics, and an annoying popup warning on
windows 10). I forgot to test gfx_fb on Windows.

I nearly agreed to changing the default backend on Windows back to
gfx_sdl, but now I'm reassured that gfx_directx really is better - for
example, it allows maximising the window too. And it can report (not
implemented yet) whether the mouse is inside the window, something
that will be very helpful (neither SDL 1.2 nor fbgfx support that),
The problem with gfx_sdl is that SDL 1.2 is old and very limited when
it comes to WM stuff. I really would like a new backend based on SDL
2. The new backend Jay started writing in C++ (wip/gfx_sdl/) is based
on SDL 1.2; I don't know if it's worth building on.