Running in fullscreen

[Nomonkeybusiness]

Hi!
Our project is approaching deadline, and the time has come to make sure that the game looks good, not only in windowed mode.
My problem is that the gui seems to be blurred when running fullscreen-mode.
What do you people think would be the best approach here? Should I make separate .layouts for my gui for windowed mode/fullscreen mode?
Discuss

[Jamarr]

It's difficult to know what is causing the problem when you do not provide any details; comparison images would be nice. I have serious doubts about the only difference being windowed vs fullscreen - I bet you are running a higher resolution when you switch to fullscreen?

If I had to guess why it looks blurred, I would assume that you have setup CEGUI to 'autoscale' from the native resolution to the active resolution? To prevent autoscaling, use fixed-offsets instead of scaled-offsets in your layouts and set the AutoScaled property to False on your imagesets and fonts.

[NotNullGothic]

I compiled SampleDemo_6 for Debug and Release targets, it works perfect except for the Fullscren mode for any of the API I'm using (D3D9 OpenGL in Ogre). It closes correctly but my desktop taskbar is modified. I am running in Win7 x64. I'll try to test it in WinXP, but is there anyway to fix this issue? Is it a known problem?

[NotNullGothic]

Confirmed, it is a Win7 issue, in WinXP works perfect for Release or Debug.
Update: after a reboot the behavior remains in WinXP.

Windowned mode for release: OpenGL and D3D9 open, run, close no problems
Fullscreen mode: it opens, runs but sends a crashing message while closing and affects the whole taskbar
For debug targets the application can't be even opened.

The CEGUI.log reports a successful event:

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08/03/2010 10:24:59 (Std)    ---- CEGUI System destruction completed ----
08/03/2010 10:24:59 (Std)    CEGUI::Logger singleton destroyed. (026651C0)


The CEGUI Console displays

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

Thanks for raising the issue, but please post the indicated section in the CEGUI.log file. I know it might seem ridiculous that I keep asking for this, but it contains information I need; without this information I am unable to reliably test these issues.

Thanks,

CE.

[NotNullGothic]

Np here is the file, just in case i'll give you the ogre.log too.
CEGUI log http://uploader.polorix.net//files/273/CEGUI.log
Ogre log http://uploader.polorix.net//files/273/Ogre.log

[CrazyEddie]

Thanks for posting the logs, I'll test it out and get back to you ASAP.

CE.

[CrazyEddie]

Ok, this turned out to be a small bug in our samples base app for Ogre; basically it was trying to notify the CEGUI::System object of the change in display size after the CEGUI::System had already been destroyed. This is fixed in branches/v0-7 @ r2461.

Thanks again,

CE.