Quoting james tittle tigital@mac.com: so now I'm thinking to just
add a new message to gemwin for "menubar":
[menubar 1< shows [menubar 0< hides
...another thing to consider here is disabling the osx dock and cmd- tab application switching: these could also be turned on/off in tandem with the menubar message, or there could be a "kiosk" message...? The same api I'm using to do this allows broad capabilities to locking out users from the computer (ie. no force- quit applications, no powering down via keyboard, etc)
...this is probably only applicable/necessary to osx, right (anyone)? It is also possible to put in a third state, where the menubar pops up when the mouse cursor goes to the top of the screen (like in apple's dvd player fullscreen mode): I'm thinking I'll put this as default for "fullscreen on main display" mode, that way if you forget to make a key attached to the menubar message, you can still bring it up...
That would be very nice to have for installation work and a single display. I tried the 'kiosk' API stuff in GEM but of course it does nothing without window focus.
...btw, looking at the gemwin code I see that we're getting quite a few messages: fullscreen, secondscreen, offset, border and dimen all have to do with these nuances of window behavior...refresh my memory, but is "secondscreen" even necessary anymore? Doesn't [fullscreen 2< do similar (or should)?
'secondscreen' is defunct.
cgc
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