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Started by Melinda Jan 27, 2003 at 12:27 PM 1 replies 200+ views

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Jan 27, 2003 at 12:27 PM

I wish to debug my fullscreen ddraw app but it always locks up how can i convert a fullscreen dx app to a widow mode? Thanks Mel

Turt99

Jan 27, 2003 at 12:36 PM

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article960.asp

this article and the second part of this article can be found in the "Articles & Resources" section here at Gamedev..

I used this article to figure it out, this one is actually a step above, because this will let you switch, but it will definity help you find some clues as to what you need to change..

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Zern

Jan 27, 2003 at 12:37 PM

Well, among other flags you have to set, be sure you set the
Windowed flag of the D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS to TRUE, and set the backbufferformat to match the desktop display format.

i.e.

    

D3DPRESENT_PARAMETERS d3dpp; 
ZeroMemory( &d3dpp, sizeof(d3dpp) );
d3dpp.Windowed = TRUE;
d3dpp.BackBufferFormat = D3DFMT_UNKNOWN;

Also don't forget to actually create your window you will use to render to with Height and Width parameters, as you did not need to with fullscreen.

Edit: This is assuming you don't want to start up in full screen then switch to windowed mode

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[edited by - Zern on January 27, 2003 1:38:53 PM]

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