Name: gm110360 Date: 08/25/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
It has come to my attention that you cannot change the screen's DisplayMode in Linux while in fullscreen mode. I don't know if there is a reason that this feature has not been supported on Linux.

JUSTIFICATION :
Having the ability to change the dimensions of the screen allows the user to expirience a more immersive game. Changing the dimensions on a screen is also useful for many other types of media software.
Linux is a large development OS if I cannot expect the same results on my Linux system as on any other windows system then what is the use of a VM that runs much slower than native c code.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
The screen will be able to be resized using the setDisplayMode() method of the GraphicsDevice class.
ACTUAL -
The GraphicsDevice object currently reports any DisplyMode changes to be unsupported.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
// Get the current graphics device
GraphicsEnvironment environment = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
GraphicsDevice device = environment.getDefaultScreenDevice();

// Create a display mode to change to.
DisplayMode displayMode = new DisplayMode(800, 600, 16, DisplayMode.REFRESH_RATE_UNKNOWN);

// This current object is a subclass of window
device.setFullScreenWindow(this);

// Set the display mode if changing the display mode is supported.
if(displayMode != null && device.isDisplayChangeSupported()){
       device.setDisplayMode(displayMode);
}
---------- END SOURCE ----------
(Incident Review ID: 296835)
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