Question

I’m working on a java swing application that will be used in a psychology experiment and the researchers have requested that I make the program ‘black out the screen’ in order that there should be no outside stimuli for the user. They want the swing app to be truly full-screen and without any type of title bar or minimize/maximize/close buttons on the top.

The software will be running in a Windows XP environment using JavaSE 6.

How can I do this and please provide a code snippet if applicable.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use the Full Screen Java APIs?

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/exclusivemode.html

http://www.artificis.hu/2006/03/16/java-awtswing-fullscreen

JFrame fr = new JFrame(); fr.setResizable(false); if (!fr.isDisplayable()) {     // Can only do this when the frame is not visible     fr.setUndecorated(true); } GraphicsDevice gd = GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getDefaultScreenDevice(); try {   if (gd.isFullScreenSupported()) {     gd.setFullScreenWindow(fr);   } else {     // Can't run fullscreen, need to bodge around it (setSize to screen size, etc)   }   fr.setVisible(true);   // Your business logic here } finally {   gd.setFullScreenWindow(null); }