For an example of this type of window, see my earlier post An Asteroids-Style Game in Core Animation: Part 1. The first is normally recommended for games where you never want the window to be interrupted. Basic fullscreen window - where a floating window simply covers everything else on the screen.

Screen capture - where one window gains exclusive control of the screen.

There are two basic types of fullscreen on the Mac:

You can download the Xcode 3.1 project here: FullscreenImage.zip (277kB). When you choose the 'Toggle Fullscreen' menu item, the content area of the window (not the window's frame) will animate to fill the entire screen (the Dock and menubar will hide). The sample app for this post has one window: In this post I'll show you my preferred approach for making an application window fullscreen, with continuous display and smooth animation. If you look for examples on the web, you'll find numerous examples that perform this operation using old APIs or methods intended for permanently fullscreen games (the wrong approach for an application window). Many Mac OS X applications animate their regular application windows to fullscreen but since there's no dedicated method for the task, there's no standard Apple documentation that covers the operation.

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