<AWT Dev> Replacement for com.apple.eawt.FullScreen*

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 24.07.2019 14:03, DRC wrote:
> As far as filing a bug report, I would love to, but the rules for
> obtaining a bug tracker account are rather stringent, and I doubt that I
> qualify (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/general/JBS+Overview).  I

It is not necessary to have an JBS account to create a new bugs, you can file it here:
https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase

> am an application developer that relies upon OpenJDK, and I have some
> familiarity with the source code vis-a-vis diagnosing issues such as
> this, but I'm not an OpenJDK author.  Sorry if this is the wrong forum
> for me to post issues like this, but I didn't know where else to post.
> 
> On 7/22/19 4:58 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>> Hi, DRC.
>>
>> I guess this feature have to be implemented by this CR:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143914
>>
>> The idea was to use the sequence of: "setExtendedState() + MAXIMIZED_BOTH"
>> to toggle the "fullscreen" window. And use the client property to
>> enable/disable
>> this functionality. But it looks like something has changed since then, and
>> the window does not move to the "fullscreen" when we zoom it.
>> Please file a bug for this.
>>
>> Interesting that the "fullscreen" works fine if the user clicks on the
>> zoom button.
>>
>>
>> On 20/07/2019 17:03, DRC wrote:
>>> I've been beating my head against the wall about this for quite a while,
>>> but I can't figure out how to programmatically toggle "Lion Full-Screen
>>> Mode" (i.e. "Full-Screen Mode Using Spaces") on macOS without using the
>>> deprecated com.apple.eawt.FullScreen* classes, which are problematic at
>>> best when including a custom JRE in my app using jlink.  I looked at the
>>> OpenJDK 12 source, and it doesn't appear that the native code to do this
>>> toggling has any other touch points besides the
>>> com.apple.eawt.FullScreen* classes.  What am I missing?  The problem is
>>> that, because I'm writing a remote desktop client, I have to provide
>>> users with a way to switch in and out of full-screen mode with a
>>> keystroke and menu option, and I also have to be able to detect when the
>>> user clicks the full-screen button in the window's titlebar.  I don't
>>> know how to do that without invoking
>>> com.apple.eawt.FullScreenListener.addFullScreenListenerTo() and
>>> com.apple.eawt.Application.requestToggleFullScreen().  Any advice is
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> DRC
>>>
>>
>>


-- 
Best regards, Sergey.