Full Screen your RCP Applications
In Eclipse 3.4, it's now possible to full-screen an SWT Shell. In simple terms, this means that you can add full-screen support to your Eclipse-based applications fairly easily. For example, take this simple action you could add to your application:
...
// maybe code in an ActionBarAdvisor
fullScreenAction = new Action("Full Screen") {
{ setId("fullscreen");
setActionDefinitionId("mypluginid" + "fullscreen"); } //$NON-NLS-1$
public void run() {
window.getShell().setFullScreen(true); // grab an IWorkbenchWindow and fullscreen it
}
};
...
It's as simple as that! For reference, see this blog post.
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Raffaele Gambelli replied on Fri, 2008/02/15 - 8:55am
Hi,
with SWT it has always been possible to show a shell in full screen
public static void main (String [] args) {
Display display = new Display ();
Shell shell = new Shell (display);
shell.setMaximized (true);
shell.open ();
while (!shell.isDisposed ()) {
if (!display.readAndDispatch ()) display.sleep ();
}
display.dispose ();
}
}
Best regards
Raffaele Gambelli Java developer - Eclipse Plugin Writer - Eclipse Lover - Ah yeah
Grant Gayed replied on Fri, 2008/02/15 - 10:22am
in response to: gamby
maximized != full screen. The latter does not show a shell title or decorations.