Name

glutFullScreen  - requests that the current window be made
full screen.

Python Specification

glutFullScreen
	glutFullScreen() -> None

C Specification

void glutFullScreen(void);

Description

glutFullScreen requests that the current  window  be  made
full  screen.   The  exact  semantics  of what full screen
means may vary by window system. The intent is to make the
window as large as possible and disable any window decora-
tions or borders added the window system. The window width
and height are not guaranteed to be the same as the screen
width and height, but that is the intent of making a  win-
dow full screen.

glutFullScreen  is  defined to work only on top-level win-
dows.

The glutFullScreen requests are not processed immediately.
The  request is executed after returning to the main event
loop. This allows  multiple  glutReshapeWindow,  glutPosi-
tionWindow, and glutFullScreen requests to the same window
to be coalesced.

Subsequent   glutReshapeWindow   and    glutPositionWindow
requests on the window will disable the full screen status
of the window.

X Implementation Notes

In the X implementation of GLUT,  full  screen  is  imple-
mented  by  sizing and positioning the window to cover the
entire screen and posting the _MOTIF_WM_HINTS property  on
the window requesting absolutely no decorations. Non-Motif
window managers may not respond to _MOTIF_WM_HINTS.

See Also

glutReshapeWindow, glutPositionWindow

Author

Mark J. Kilgard (mjk@nvidia.com)

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