Kill/Exit/Minimize a fullscreen application

[Lebostein]

Hi,

how I can exit or minimize a fullscreen application? For example this:
Warning! Only way to exit is restart!

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InitSprite()
InitKeyboard()

ExamineDesktops()

b = DesktopWidth(0)
h = DesktopHeight(0)
d = DesktopDepth(0)

OpenScreen(b, h, d, "")

Repeat

ExamineKeyboard()

ClearScreen($0000FF)
FlipBuffers()

ForEver

It seems that PB applications with Keyboard() library blocks all system shortcuts....

[KJ67]

Have you looked at KeyboardInkey()?

[michel51]

Hi,

how I can exit or minimize a fullscreen application? For example this:
Warning! Only way to exit is restart!

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InitSprite()
InitKeyboard()

ExamineDesktops()

b = DesktopWidth(0)
h = DesktopHeight(0)
d = DesktopDepth(0)

OpenScreen(b, h, d, "")

Repeat

ExamineKeyboard()

ClearScreen($0000FF)
FlipBuffers()

ForEver

It seems that PB applications with Keyboard() library blocks all system shortcuts....

Hello Lebostein,
this is an endless loop
You have to put in a possibility to leave the loop.
Try instead of <ForEver> the following:

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Until KeyboardPushed(#PB_Key_Escape)

or similar code.
Also a If - Endif with break condition is possible before ForEver.

Hope you understand my "german" english

[Lebostein]

this is an endless loop

Yes! That is the point. How I can exit/kill/minimize a program with an intentional/unintentional endless loop like that?
With Windows I can press ctrl+alt+entf (task manager) in every case. But with Mac OS? Why all system shortcuts like cmd+m (minimize) or cmd+alt+esc (task manager) are blocked in PB fullscreen application? Its a PB specific problem or generally?

[Vera]

Hi,

to block cmd+alt+esc (task manager) I think is really a bad idea
but I had in mind that on WIN you can exit a fullscreen-app by using ALT+TAB to switch between open applications - is there no such feature on MAC ?

greetings ~ Vera

[WilliamL]

Yes, 'cmd+alt+esc' (or the Apple menu 'Force quit') won't cause any problems, it will just 'force quit' the program you select. I've done this many times and in this situation you are only quitting the app and not the IDE.

Hey, vera, you have a Mac?

[michel51]

Yes, 'cmd+alt+esc' (or the Apple menu 'Force quit') won't cause any problems, it will just 'force quit' the program you select. I've done this many times and in this situation you are only quitting the app and not the IDE.

Hey, vera, you have a Mac?

Hi William,
You are right. But I think, Lebostein will not quit the IDE, but the endless running application.
In this case 'cmd+alt+esc' (or the Apple menu 'Force quit') is the only way to finish the application.

[Lebostein]

The problem is: cmd+alt+esc don't work!

Simple question: How I can kill a fullscreen application?

OK, I have disarmed my code. Please try to minimize or kill this without pressing [E]:

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InitSprite()
InitKeyboard()

ExamineDesktops()

b = DesktopWidth(0)
h = DesktopHeight(0)
d = DesktopDepth(0)

OpenScreen(b, h, d, "")

Repeat

ExamineKeyboard()

ClearScreen($0000FF)
FlipBuffers()

Until KeyboardPushed(#PB_Key_E)

[michel51]

The problem is: cmd+alt+esc don't work!

Simple question: How I can kill a fullscreen application?

OK, I have disarmed my code. Please try to minimize or kill this without pressing [E]:

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InitSprite()
InitKeyboard()

ExamineDesktops()

b = DesktopWidth(0)
h = DesktopHeight(0)
d = DesktopDepth(0)

OpenScreen(b, h, d, "")

Repeat

ExamineKeyboard()

ClearScreen($0000FF)
FlipBuffers()

Until KeyboardPushed(#PB_Key_E)

cmd+alt+esc works fine on my Mac, with and without debugger.
The program will be killed directly (red screen), the IDE is active.

Which version of PB do you have? Which Mac OS? Intel-machine?
May be, there is the reason for your problem.