[SDL] Fadeout effect when switching modes in fullscreen on OSX

[Peter Mulholland]

Hello Stephen,

Monday, December 11, 2006, 8:56:13 PM, you wrote:

> First of all, has anyone seen this effect before?  It occurs in 
> fullscreen mode in OSX, when one does a mode change.  Instead of the 
> quick change that occurs in Linux and Windows, the whole screen fades 
> out, and then back in again.  I assume it's an OSX/SDL thing, since the
> same code doesn't do that anywhere else.

It's an OS X thing. All OS X stuff that goes fullscreen does this.

> What is this effect, and is it possible to disable it?  Or do the users
> have to live with it?

As far as I can tell, you have to live with it.

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