[vlc-devel] How to do fullscreen in 1.1.x with libvlc API

[Jacques Boileau]

> With Win32, full screen mode must be implemented directly in the
> application if libvlc_media_player_set_hwnd() was used.


I have given a shot at managing the full screen through my application
by reparenting to the desktop, resizing, etc. I am fully succesfull at
going to fullscreen. The problem is going out of fullscreen. Since the
VLC window occupies the whole screen, and to the best of my knowledge
the VLC window does transmit mouse double click up to its parent
window I have no way of getting out of full screen. Are there ways to
have mouse and keyboard event be sent to the application window that
was given to libvlc_media_player_set_hwnd ?

Jacques Boileau




2010/11/9 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
>
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:54:54 -0500, Jacques Boileau <jboileau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I believe the fullscreen mode has changed in 1.1.x. If I call the full
>> screen API of libvlc nothing happens.
>
> I have not tested it but it should work just fine provided the video is
> _not_ embedded into another widget.
> Of course, if it is embedded, the full screen flag will have no effects
> because:
>  - on X11: the window managers does not track non-top windows,
>  - on Win32: the LibVLC "drawable" plugin does not implement full screen
> toggle at all.
>
>> I read the documentation that talks of reparenting the window
>
> On X11, the embedding window must be a top window at the time full screen
> mode is requested. To that end, that window must be re-parented to the
> root. And yes, I am paraphrasing the documentation, because there really
> are only so many ways to explain this.
>
>> but can't seem to understand what I should do.
>> Any help in getting fullscreen mode back in my libvlc based
>> application under win32 would be greatly appreciated.
>
> With Win32, full screen mode must be implemented directly in the
> application if libvlc_media_player_set_hwnd() was used.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://www.remlab.net
> http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis
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