macOS NSView fullscreen

[hoschi]

Hi:

I have a program running which uses fullscreen mode also- that is I can go full screen as well. I have a custom view in this window (where I show some opengl stuff) and some buttons/controls..

The problem is this..
Once I go to the fullscreen and come back, my normal sized window cannot display the custom view but only displays the normal window with controls and without the custom view itself..

I read somewhere that in order for any other views to be shown, they should be made subviews of the content view. I have no clue how to do that.

Also if anyone thinks there is another way around this, it could be helpful...
Below is the relevant part of the code...

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-(IBAction)fullScreenid)sender
{
if (fullScreenMode)
{
[fullScreenWindow close];
[startingWindow setAcceptsMouseMovedEvents:YES];
// [startingWindow setContentView:];
[startingWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil];
// [startingWindow makeFirstResponder:myGLView];
fullScreenMode = NO;
} else
{
unsigned int windowStyle;
NSRect contentRect;
startingWindow = [NSApp keyWindow];
windowStyle = NSBorderlessWindowMask;
contentRect = [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame];
fullScreenWindow = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:contentRect
styleMask:windowStyle
backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered
defer:NO];
[startingWindow setAcceptsMouseMovedEvents:NO];

if(fullScreenWindow != nil)
{
[fullScreenWindow setTitle"GL Viewer"];
[fullScreenWindow setReleasedWhenClosed:YES];
[fullScreenWindow setAcceptsMouseMovedEvents:YES];
[fullScreenWindow setContentView:myGLView];
[fullScreenWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:myGLView];
[fullScreenWindow setLevel:NSScreenSaverWindowLevel -1];
[fullScreenWindow makeFirstResponder:myGLView];
fullScreenMode = YES;
}
}
}

 

[robbieduncan]

...I read somewhere that in order for any other views to be shown, they should be made subviews of the content view. I have no clue how to do that.

This is easy:

NSWindow *window = <code to get window>;
NSView *view = <code to get view>;

[[window contentView] addSubview:view];
<set view frame etc>

p.s. if you wrap you code in CODE tags it's a bit easier to read

 

[HiRez]

I read somewhere that in order for any other views to be shown, they should be made subviews of the content view. I have no clue how to do that.

Just use

[[myWindow contentView] addSubview:mySubview]

 

[robbieduncan]

Just use

[[myWindow contentView] addSubView:mySubView]

Beat you to it

And it's addSubview: (I just checked to make sure)

 

[HiRez]

Beat you to it

And it's addSubview: (I just checked to make sure)

Heh, I just changed that too!

 

[hoschi]

Heh, I just changed that too!

I added the line and added [[myWindow contentView] addSubview:myView]

HoweverI am getting the same problem as before

 

[robbieduncan]

Can you host the XCode project somewhere (as a zip or something). The code above is a bit difficult to understand on it's own...

 

[HiRez]

I added the line and added [[myWindow contentView] addSubview:myView]

HoweverI am getting the same problem as before

Sorry, in the Mac world, when you see "my<Something>" if usually means "substitute the actual name of the object I'm using here". So in your case it sounds like it would be:

[[fullScreenWindow contentView] addSubview:myGLView];

Whether that actually works to accomplish what you're going for, I don't know, I'm just going off what you said about adding subviews to a content view.

EDIT: fixed typo...again!