Live display adjustments

[xan2622]

It could be interesting to be able to modify some display settings without restarting:

• Changing the Display mode without restarting: windowed, fullscreen, pseudo-fullscreen (according to pchote on IRC, it could be possible with SDL 2 Migrate to SDL 2 #3315)
• Live window resizing (in windowed mode)

Requirement:

• Get rid of explicit widget positioning in UI Get rid of explicit widget positioning in UI #5625

[chrisforbes]

Quite. The big problem is the UI, which evaluates its metrics at widget
creation time. We could do something crude [a UI reload] at resize time.

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:32 PM, xanax notifications@github.com wrote:

It would be interesting to be able to change the display mode (windowed,
fullscreen, pseudo-fullscreen) without restarting..

According to pchote on IRC, it could be possible with SDL 2.

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[xan2622]

Reloading the UI without restarting would be also interesting in other cases:

• to load mods without restarting OpenRA completely ?
• players could also reload the UI with a button or a commandline (at will): useful for translators (to quickly view translation changes)

I saw this feature in other games: the player just has to type a (cheat) command /reloadui or something..

[chrisforbes]

@phrohdoh: please make a separate ticket for a console.

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Phrohdoh notifications@github.com wrote:

You bring up an idea I've had for quite some time. We need (at least in
DEV_VERSIONs) a commandline interpreter or sorts. Something like Star Wars
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast had (just discovered the source was
released!!) to test things and create new actors on the fly and whatnot.
This could also be used to change screen resolution or fullscreen/windowed
with SDL2 support.

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