[Cuis-dev] toggling full screen mode

[Juan Vuletich]

On 6/12/2024 9:58 PM, Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev wrote:
> I was looking for a way to detect if Cuis Smalltalk is in full screen 
> mode. I see that the `DisplayScreen` class has this instance method 
> for changing it:
>
> fullScreenMode: aBoolean
>     "On platforms that support it, set full-screen mode to the value 
> of the argument. (Note: you'll need to restore the Display after 
> calling this primitive."
>     "Display fullScreenMode: true. Display newDepth: Display depth"
>
> <primitive: 233>
>     self primitiveFailed
>
> This is the first time I've encountered the `<primitive: someNumber>` 
> syntax.
> Where can I learn about what that does?
>
> -- 
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.

The BlueBook chapter 29 is about this. I'm pretty sure many other 
Smalltalk books will describe the VM interface too. Also this article 
from the August 1981 Byte magazine: 
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n313/mode/2up

HTH,

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