Fullscreen Mode on Mac OS X

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Appmethod offers support for fullscreen mode in FireMonkey applications that have the Mac OS X target platform. Fullscreen mode is available on Mac OS X versions 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and greater.

Mac OS X versions 10.8 and 10.9:

• The full-screen icon appears in the upper right-hand corner.

Mac OS X version 10.10+:

• The full-screen icon appears in the upper left-hand corner.

On a Mac window:

• To expand the application to fullscreen mode, click or .
• To leave fullscreen mode, press the Esc key.

Enabling the Mac Fullscreen Icon in Your FireMonkey Application

• To enable the fullscreen icon in your Mac application, set ShowFullScreenIcon to True at design time in the Object Inspector, with the TForm in focus.

• The result at run time, with the fullscreen icon indicated in red:
  

Starting Your FireMonkey Application in Fullscreen Mode on the Mac

• To start a FireMonkey Mac OS X application in fullscreen mode, set FullScreen to True at design time in the Object Inspector, with the TForm in focus.

Programmatically Setting Fullscreen Mode for Mac OS X Applications

You can also programmatically set the ShowFullScreenIcon and FullScreen properties using the following code:

Form1.ShowFullScreenIcon := true;  // enables the fullscreen icon in the Mac app
Form1.FullScreen := true; // starts the app in fullscreen mode on the Mac

See Also

• FMX.Forms.TCommonCustomForm.FullScreen
• Building a Mac OS X Hello World Console Application
• Considerations for Multi-Device Applications