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Aquaria => Support => Topic started by: nunix on November 28, 2008, 08:22:23 am

Title: Can't task switch in fullscreen in OSX version
Post by: nunix on November 28, 2008, 08:22:23 am

..subject line pretty much sums it up. =p Have to set to windowed to be able to switch, which means either having the bottom of the screen cut off if I set it at full (due to the menu bar at the top), or I'm running in a smaller window.
Title: Re: Can't task switch in fullscreen in OSX version
Post by: Alec on November 28, 2008, 10:15:05 am
I don't know of any Mac apps that let you task switch in true fullscreen.
Title: Re: Can't task switch in fullscreen in OSX version
Post by: nunix on November 28, 2008, 07:52:09 pm

Er.. Spore, just released, can. Jade Empires. And those are running via cider.
Title: Re: Can't task switch in fullscreen in OSX version
Post by: PiSketch on November 28, 2008, 10:08:26 pm
Yeah, that's actually a result of the way they do fullscreen.  The proper way to do it is actually making the app fullscreen, the way those games do it is by making a window the size of the screen that covers the menu bar and dock.  Programs running in proper fullscreen can't be command-tabbed out of.  What you can do, to make the game approximately fullscreen, is open ~/Library/Preferences/com.bit-blot.aquaria.xml (Where ~ is your home directory) and change line 16 (<ScreenMode resx="<yourscreenreshere>" resy="<yourscreenreshere>" bits="32" fbuffer="1" full="0") so that resy=your screen height in pixels minus 44 and resx=your screen width in pixels.  This will, essentially, make the game window the size of your screen minus the menu and title bar. 
Title: Re: Can't task switch in fullscreen in OSX version
Post by: Alec on November 28, 2008, 10:57:12 pm
Yeah, I'm pretty sure those aren't true fullscreen, they're just big windows. I think its helps framerates slightly to have the real fullscreen mode that gets direct access to the screen rather than going through the window rendering system.
Title: Re: Can't task switch in fullscreen in OSX version
Post by: nunix on November 29, 2008, 02:02:57 am
Thanks PiSketch, I'll play with that and see how it works!

(reaaaaally liking the game so far!)