Hi all,

Is there a way in SDL to get the "live" desktop size?  I'm able to receive the desktop area correctly, but what I want to do is force my game to fullscreen if too much of it is behind the dock on a Mac.

Since the screen is 800 pixels high, my game (at 768 pixels) reports that everything is okay-- but the bottom of the game (where I have some user interface) is behind the dock and can't be touched.  Meanwhile, the game window can't be dragged any higher on the screen.

So in general, I want to just say "the screen's too small to access the bottom of a 768 pixel window because of the size of the dock-- go fullscreen."  Any way to do that?

Thanks!

Hi all,

Is there a way in SDL to get the "live" desktop size?  I'm able to receive the desktop area correctly, but what I want to do is force my game to fullscreen if too much of it is behind the dock on a Mac.

Since the screen is 800 pixels high, my game (at 768 pixels) reports that everything is okay-- but the bottom of the game (where I have some user interface) is behind the dock and can't be touched.  Meanwhile, the game window can't be dragged any higher on the screen.

So in general, I want to just say "the screen's too small to access the bottom of a 768 pixel window because of the size of the dock-- go fullscreen."  Any way to do that?

Thanks!