Full-screen mode

[mikeny07]

Is it possible to run pygfx applications in a full-screen mode without the top "title" bar?

[Korijn]

No. We'll have to add support for it here in the wgpu.gui subpackage.

[almarklein]

Actually ... this works:

import PySide6
from wgpu.gui.qt import WgpuCanvas, run
import pygfx as gfx

canvas = WgpuCanvas(size=(900, 400))
canvas.showFullScreen()
renderer = gfx.renderers.WgpuRenderer(canvas)

... etc

And for glfw:

canvas = WgpuCanvas(size=(900, 400))

import glfw

glfw.set_window_monitor(canvas._window, glfw.get_primary_monitor(), 0, 0, 1920, 1080, glfw.DONT_CARE)
...

Would be nice to support WgpuCanvas(... fullscreen=True), but until then, you can use something like the above.

[Korijn]

Would be nice to support WgpuCanvas(... fullscreen=True), but until then, you can use something like the above.

Let's use this issue to track the API changes we would propose.

• WgpuCanvas(..., fullscreen=True)
• WgpuCanvas().fullscreen(monitor: int=None, windowless: bool=False) to switch at runtime
• WgpuCanvas().windowed() to switch at runtime

I guess it would also require some method to get a list of monitors?

[almarklein]

I guess it would also require some method to get a list of monitors?

I think it can default to the default / current screen. Qt's showFullScreen has no args to specify a monitor.

This might be a good time to also consider other window states: normal (windowed), hidden, minimized, maximixed, fullscreen.

[mikeny07]

Great, the glfw.set_window_monitor function works.

It would be nice to allow the user to set the full-screen mode.

Thank you so much for your excellent work!

[hmaarrfk]

Are you really trying to abstract away Qt and GLFW. Why not just document your short examples.

I strongly doubt any code beyond simple examples can be made to run agnosticqlly between the two

[Korijn]

Are you really trying to abstract away Qt and GLFW. Why not just document your short examples.

I strongly doubt any code beyond simple examples can be made to run agnosticqlly between the two

Well, this is a pretty deep topic.

• wgpu.gui already abstracts over glfw, qt, wx, offscreen and jupyter
• it's intended to make it very easy to visualize something quickly
• it's not as outlandish as you may think, e.g. matplotlib does exactly the same thing
• we strive to make usage of the wgpu.gui subpackage entirely optional, so you can use it for simple scripts and applications as you like
• but you're never required to use it

Hope that explains.