Java 3D and fullscreen exclusive mode

Hello all. I have the following problem: if I try to set fullscreen exclusive mode by calling
device.setFullScreenWindow(window);
then Java renders nothing. If I remove this line of code, everything works perfectly. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

you can't do that like that! it's a bit more conplicated. if you haven't,take a look at that:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/index.html

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WIndows XP SP2
ATI 8500 All-In-Wonder
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the graphic rendering thread DOESN'T sleep.
Here's my problem. I have a bad trade off. In fullscreen exclusive mode my animation runs <30 fps and jerks when rendering. i.e. stop and go movement (not flickering/jittering just hesitant motion) when the animation is running. I solved this problem by raising the thread priority of the rendering (7-8). . . this resulted in latency/no activity for my input events both key and mouse. For instance closing the program alt-f4 will arbitrarily fail or be successful when the thread priority is raised above 6.
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Is there a way to raise thread priority for event handling?
Ultimately I want to be able to perform my animations and handle key and mouse input events without having a visible 'hiccups' on the screen.
Much Appreciated!

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I solved some of the problem after posting this thread. . . .
I inserted a thread.sleep(1) and my alt-f4 operation worked unhindered with the elevated thread priority.
I haven't tested it with mouse event or any other key event but at the moment it looks I may have solved the problem.
If so, my next question will be is there a way to reduce the amount of cpu power needed to run the program.
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protected int status = 0;
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import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
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http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/exclusivemode.html
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[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/]
[http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/exclusivemode.html]
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If anyone is interested here is a code that solves the problem.
* This test takes a number up to 13 as an argument (assumes 2 by
* default) and creates a multiple buffer strategy with the number of
* buffers given. This application enters full-screen mode, if available,
* and flips back and forth between each buffer (each signified by a different
* color).
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferStrategy;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class MultiBufferTest {
    int x, y;
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        new DisplayMode(800, 600, 32, 0),
        new DisplayMode(800, 600, 16, 0),
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            mainFrame.addMouseMotionListener(new MA());
            mainFrame.addMouseListener(new MA());
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            y=0;
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            for (int i = 0; i < modes.length; i++) {
                if (modes.getWidth() == BEST_DISPLAY_MODES[x].getWidth()
&& modes[i].getHeight() == BEST_DISPLAY_MODES[x].getHeight()
&& modes[i].getBitDepth() == BEST_DISPLAY_MODES[x].getBitDepth()
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return null;
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if (best != null) {
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try {
GraphicsEnvironment env = GraphicsEnvironment.
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GraphicsDevice device = env.getDefaultScreenDevice();
MultiBufferTest test = new MultiBufferTest(2, device);
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e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(0);
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x = e.getX();
y = e.getY();
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x = e.getX();
y = e.getY();
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x = e.getX();
y = e.getY();
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x = e.getX();
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x = e.getX();
y = e.getY();

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is there a way to use them together? while in fullscreen exclusive mode the jfilechooser doesn't attach to fullscreen window and it halts the program.. I've tried setting the parent frame as the fullscreen frame but it's all glitched.. am I missing something?
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best regards,
Jacopo

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Have an application wich is a Applet and also can run as a desktop program. The fullscreen desktop function some time ago sotpped work, now I have been testing to discover the problem and discovered the Applet does not work correctly when inside my Frame, the Panel class also does not work, only the JPanel is drawed in my fullscreen.
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Ok, the browser window wrapper does nothing in particular, in fact it can be replaced by a Frame using java web start, but maybe the users will get intimidated by this approach.And maybe they won't. Developers seem to have a greater fear of apps. launched using JWS than users do.
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I need to display animated 3D images in fullscreen exclusive mode and I'm using active rendering as opposed to passive. How can I display parts of the virtual universe in fullscreen mode with active rendering? Many, many thanks to whoever can help me out with this.

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Does anybody have any idea how to get the current frame, and draw it so that I can keep the repetitive rendering (from the game loop) running.
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Never written a fullscreen exclusive application. In fact, I've never even heard of such a thing.
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/exclusivemode.html
"In full-screen exclusive applications, painting is usually done actively by the program itself"
Ah. So no, I don't think JMF would support that because it's not going to be actively rendering, only passively rendering in response to paint requests. It's AWT/Swing based, after all...
But, the fact that JMF doesn't support it does not mean JMF can't support it. JMF provides a custom Renderer interface which you could implement to actively render the stuff. It'll essentially give you a copy of the video frame in a Buffer object which you can then turn into an image using the BufferToImage class and then render that however you'd render an image for a full screen exclusive application...

AWT Popup Menu in Fullscreen Exclusive + JOGL

Our application runs in Fullscreen Exclusive mode and uses JOGL. We want the user to be able to access right-click Popup menus like in other applications. (Obviously, this isn't a game; but I figured I'd post here because game developers are the only ones likely to be familiar with Fullscreen Exclusive.)
On Windows, I was pleasantly suprised to find that popupMenu.show() just works when I'm in Fullscreen Exclusive. The menu appears, works correctly, etc.
On Mac OS X 10.3+, the menu does not appear. I've developed a clumsy workaround (basically, go out of fullscreen exclusive to show the menu, and then go back in when mouse events start coming again). Frankly, the way it works on a Mac is what I expected on the PC. I wouldn't expect a Popup Menu (being another window) to be able to appear over a fullscreen exclusive window.
My question is this: Is the Windows behavior a bug? Is it video driver dependent? (It seems to work OK with all the machines we've tested on... ATI, NVIDIA, Intel) Should I be doing my Mac hack on the Windows platform to avoid some unforseen problem?
Also, any idea what Linux or other platforms would do?

I am not sure why that works in one OS and not the others.
All I can say is that if it was a game, we would draw the popup menu ourself within the frame in our rendering loop, that is garunteed to work in all OS's. But your probably using AWT or SWING components. Sounds like it may be a compadibility issue, I would check the bug lists to see if that is a known issue that is being worked on.

Popups in fullscreen exclusive?

My game is running in fullscreen exclusive mode but I need to open the occasional dialog box which new shows in front of the fullscreen main frame. Is there any way of making popups such as Dialogs or other frames appear in fullscreen exclusive mode?

Since when did any game you ever played written in even the most powerful languages and 2d/3d api's ever display a popup during the programs run in fullscreen exclusive mode? (Error popup dialogs that end the game dont count. Unless you 'wanted' your app to end after a popup of course... o_O)
Now, as for a more efficient/robust/intuitive/cooler etc way to display important information to the user, perhaps your game (I'm assuming its a game due to where this is posted) should draw its own frame lookalike that could function just like a popup, only it resided in the game, and had its own look and feel. ( a look that should undoubtly be way more apealing to your audience than a standard dialog...)

Any chance of Flash using WASAPI Exclusive Mode?

My new Win7 computer is connected to my home audio system via a "bit perfect" optical output feeding a "professional audio" DAC. Players that can bypass Direct Sound and the Windows Mixer, and take Exclusive Mode control of the WASAPI channel, sound noticeably better. If I go to the trouble of capturing a Flash file and playing it locally through WASAPI, it sounds much better than it did while it was streaming through the Flash browser plug-in.
As more of my video entertainment moves to the web and Flash, I'd really like to be able to stream the audio directly through WASAPI. Is there any hope of Adobe or a third party enabling this? Or is it intentionally prohibited as a way to block bit-perfect capture of DRM limited media?
If DRM is the limiting factor, I'd suggest Adobe re-consider... Pirates rarely care about small improvements in sound quality. Much Flash content can already be intercepted in bit-perfect form if one takes the time. It is mainly honest users operating within the intended streaming format who lose quality due to the browser plug-in routing audio through Windows Mixer.

I second this reqest. The archaic waveout API used currently has quality issues in Vista and later. It's crazy when you consider people pay for AV content in some cases and can't get the full quality their hardware is capable of.

Java 5, AWT in headless mode and X11 Libraries

Hi All,
In Java 5, does AWT still require X11 libs to be present (not running or started) when using AWT in headless mode ?
What level of grahpics (non GUI) activities can you perform with Java 5 and AWT in headless mode.
Cheers

i found something here...
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=444149&start=10&tstart=0

Java 3D and fullscreen exclusive mode

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