Switching windowed/fullscreen and fonts

[rubixcuber]

I've got a project I'm working on, where I included the option to switch between fullscreen and windowed at runtime.

I have it set up so it reloads all of the textures under the new device and everything works great, except that all of the fonts stop working.

Trying to call getFont again doesn't seem to make any sort of difference.

Right now my code looks something like this:

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font = guienv->getFont("GFX/Font/console.xml");
 
...
 
if(font)guienv->removeFont(font); // added this after finding it in the forums, but sounds like this isn't functional at the moment?
 
device->closeDevice();
 
device = createDevice( EDT_OPENGL, dimension2d<u32>(MAXX, MAXY), 32, false, false, false, events);
    if (!device) return;
 
guienv = device->getGUIEnvironment();
 
font = guienv->getFont("GFX/Font/console.xml");
 
statictext->setOverrideFont(font);
 

But I haven't had any luck so far. Is there a way to get around this?

[thanhle]

Hi,
Can we go to full screen mode without closing the previous device?
Its not too hard using windows API to hide the title bar and border. But is there a universal method?

Thanks
Thanh

[Granyte]

I don't know how or why it's not included in irrlicht but considering how easy it's to do it using windows I don't get why irrlicht cannot do it is it so hard to do with OGL?

[hendu]

No, there is no cross-platform method for window control. The only portable way to get fullscreen is to request it at device creation.

[Granyte]

there is no cross platform way to deal with the window creation anyway so the question was more can it be done in Linux/ osx and idden inside a irrlicht command just like the creation process is