Title bar and multi window support

[tlf30]

I'm working on a game client, everything works good except the way the title bar looks. I was wondering if there was a way to have it take on the theme of the OS.

[kappa]

The look of the title bar should be set automatically by the window manager of the OS, which OS are you running on?

[tlf30]

I'm using windows 7 pro with the alienware overlay on the OS. This is how the title bar looks:

[tlf30]

I have icons and a background texture for the title bar, I just need a way to swap them out with the ones lwjgl gives it.

[jediTofu]

You'll have to set Undecorated to true:

http://www.lwjgl.org/wiki/index.php?title=LWJGL_Hidden_Switches

Then draw the title bar and mini/max/close buttons using OpenGL via LWJGL.

Else you'll have to modify the native code as there is no other way that I know of.

[tlf30]

Does undecorating take away the border?

[jediTofu]

It has no border for me on linux; tested with this:

java -cp .:res:jar/lwjgl.jar:jar/lwjgl_test.jar:jar/lwjgl_util.jar:jar/jinput.jar: -Djava.library.path=native/linux -Dorg.lwjgl.opengl.Window.undecorated=true org.lwjgl.test.WindowCreationTest

http://www.lwjgl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Downloading_and_Setting_Up_LWJGL

I assume Windows probably uses WM_POPUP or something and doesn't have border as well.

[tlf30]

Im not sure on doing it this way, my frame rate is already deathly low.

[jediTofu]

You could also stick the game window inside JFrame and modify the look&feel to use your icons.  Of course, AWT's Frame would be better to use, but no idea how to modify the icons through that.

[tlf30]

How would I get the lwjgl canvas in a JFrame.

[CodeBunny]

Place an AWT Canvas onto a JFrame, then:

Display.setParent(the_canvas_to_use).

[tlf30]

I'll try that! Thanks.

[tlf30]

Changing the canvas over was voted down in my last development meeting, it there a way of adding custom title bar theme support to lwjgl?

[princec]

Yes, tell the rest of the development team if they want to do it they have to do what you say.

Cas

[tlf30]

That wont work. Really all that we need is the correct title bar when using themes like on alienware computers.