Screen resolution & full screen mutually exclusive?

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-06-19 14:32:17
User: kents1 [] (age: 1230 days 🔥; posts: 2)}
Hi all,
Very new to this project so forgive my naivety, but...
Setting the Resolution appears to resize the JFrame window. Setting full screen appears to make the JFrame window match the native display resolution without the header bar.
Is there a method to switch the resolution AND then full screen, i.e. 800x600 full screen on a 1080p monitor (switch the DisplayMode)?
Thanks.
:)

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Posted: 2019-06-19 16:46:05
User: steffen [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1568 days 🔥; posts: 100)}
kents1 Hi and welcome to the LITIengine forum.
What exactly would be your expected result? Having the 4:3 resolution stretched out or having black bars?
I want to mention the option ~~~~Game.config().graphics().enableResolutionScaling() in this context. Which is kind of related to what you are asking for. But researching it for your question, I found out that it scales relative to a FullHD resolution and is more meant to provide a similar sized game on lower or higher resolutions, i.e. provide the same viewport and size of the ~~~~Environment even though the actual resolution of a monitor might vary.

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Posted: 2019-06-20 08:40:03
User: kents1 [] (age: 1230 days 🔥; posts: 2)}
Hey. Thanks for your quick response.
In terms of expected result, I think it would be down to the display card if you switched to a 4:3 resolution on a 16:9 or 16:10 monitor; you would get the black bars either side of the display like you do watching old TV programs on new TVs.
Whether or not you could even have that resolution, again, would be entirely card/driver specific.
I may be approaching this the wrong way but to give some context - if I want to draw 4 cards across the bottom of the screen as GUI components, I could make an image where each card is, say, 180px wide x 240px high. On an 800x600 screen, with a bit of spacing / margin, I can align these to use the full screen width. If I switch to full screen mode on a 4K monitor, they now only take about a quarter of the screen width. By switching the resolution, it maintains the same screen dimensions.
I saw the enableResolutionScaling but it didn't appear to scale my GUIComponents. I wasn't sure if this just effected the environment entities.

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Posted: 2019-07-02 19:37:39
User: steffen [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1568 days 🔥; posts: 100)}
kents1 I think we need to further investigate the options here. In my opinion, this could be a new option in the engine but when I think about other game engines like e.g. the Source engine, I think there is no "black-bars" option by default and it's up to the monitor settings. I'll do some further investigations on this topic and open a feature request on GitHub.