Fullscreen Windowed?

RetroArch General
#1

Trying to figure out how to make an emulator start out fullscreen in a window without the title bar. So it would look exactly like it is fullscreen, but wouldn’t freak out if something pops up and steals focus. Currently in fullscreen the emulator is minimized and you must alt+tab back to it to restore.

The closest I have come right now is to set the Window X / Y scale to 4 and it gets closet to filling the screen. Hitting the maximize button at the top will do the fullscreen thing, but keeps the titlebar. Doing this does allow an autohotkey popup to work and pauses emulation without minimizing.

Until RMenu is implemented in Windows I’m trying to do something with an autohotkey menu to load/save savestates, reset emulation, etc.

I found this thread, last post in it, http://forum.themaister.net/viewtopic.php?id=85, that lists all of the commands, so sending the udp packet may be better than emulating keystrokes for such things.

#2

With the Direct3D driver, RetroArch uses windowed fullscreen. I wrote some very short instructions on loading it in this post.

I’m also a fan of fake fullscreen, windowed fullscreen, or whatever you want to call it. :slight_smile:

#3

Thanks, I’ll have to give that a try.

#4

Success?

#5

Been away from home for a bit and haven’t had time to try until now. It works well, though Windows shows the taskbar when the menu shows up. I may be replacing the shell once I get a little further along anyway.

So, yes, definitely success. Well, so long as fullscreen d3d doesn’t run poorly with XBMC backgrounded anyway.

Thanks.

EDIT: Tested, and it works great from XBMC/Rom Collection Browser. I haven’t tested to see if ahk will send the required keystrokes or not, will do that soon.