can i determine in the code if Present has been used?

i have code such as

static boolean FULLSCREEN = true;
if (FULLSCREEN) {
 size(screen.width, screen.height);
} else {
 size(640, 480);
}

then use 'width' and 'height' for scaling my output to fit. however, this requires me to manually set FULLSCREEN as required and i'd like it to just know.

yes, i'm a noob, please be friendly 8)

cheers
andy

ok, thanks.

i added

void setup() {
 println("Undecorated " + frame.isUndecorated());
...

and got

Undecorated false
Undecorated true

as output when running in Present Mode, two 'falses' when running in windowed mode.

why does setup run twice like that?

but it's the size i'm trying to change 8) are you saying i should change it twice, once to just force it into opengl mode, the second time to get it to correct size (if necessary)? i will try it.

does nobody else do this? should i be doing something else? or should i be doing something like using normalising my coords (-1 to 1, say) and then one scale to (width, height) later on? (and how will handle different aspet ratios?)

questions questions, sorry 8)

andy

yikes, no.. i wouldn't don't do that. i would strongly discourage changing the size of an opengl renderer while it's running. the others are designed to behave correctly, but opengl usually won't play nice, and you'll get different results for different graphics cards, machines, etc.

ben,

i ran into this quite often, so it think it would be generally nice to have a variable that holds the type of mode the sketch is running in. like:

switch ( presentationMode )
{
 case ONLINE:  // i know "online" is there for that  ..
 case PROCESSING: // started from inside Processing
 case STANDALONE:  // application
}

F

With the next revision of Processing, it would really be great if we could eliminate this difficulty everyone is experiencing regarding these two things:  detecting the mode (processing, online, present) and setting the size() accordingly.

Ideally, in order for one Processing sketch to run properly (without modification) in all 3 modes, we'd like to be able to do the following:

if (present) {
get screen.width, screen.height
optionally set size to match the screen,
or to a smaller size
} else if (online) {
indicate the default width+height we would like to "Export" in INDEX.HTML, but at runtime, we'd like to get the ACTUAL width+height in <OBJECT> (or in <PARAM>)
so the HTML could be modified without needing to re-export the sketch just to update the size
} else if (processing) {
we just call size(w,h) for a desired width+height
}

I understand from fry's postings on this topic, this is not a trivial request.

Perhaps this logic could be included in a more sophisticated "size()" function.

For example, fancySize(w1,h1, w2,h2, w3,h3)
could mean:
if (processing) use size(w1,h1)
if (online) use size(w2,h2)
if (present) use size(w3,h3)
... with the additional logic that specifying w=0,h=0
asks to GET the width+height from the environment,
so that "online" the values come from the OBJECT/PARAM
and for "present" the values come from the screen.width,screen.height

I am not saying my suggestion is the best way.
I just mean to emphasize that a lot of people would appreciate a solution to this issue.
Perhaps someone else has a more elegant solution.

Better still, ... perhaps an expert Java coder out there could provide working example code to update Processing that Casey and Ben could consider for inclusion in the next release.

... just a wish,
 djones

fjen wrote on Aug 19^th, 2007, 10:18am:

FWIW, just a thought:  Perhaps it would be useful (?) if there were a "metatag" way of specifying the applet size in the absense of hardcoded values in size().  That way the applet-sizer-html-writer code could "know" the size for the export, but could still have a size() statement with discovered variable values.  Syntax could vary widely (and isn't important) but something like:

// the "//P5:" would be a special "hint" comment
// tag indicating special parsing is required
// (in its absense would continue as before to
// look for a real size(const,const) statement)

// specify desired dimensions:
//P5:  size(400,300);

// get actual dimensions:
w = blah.getWidth();
h = blah.getHeight();
size(w,h); // no constants, so not used by applet-exporter