SDL_HINT_VID...NU_VISIBILITY(3)

💖 SDL_HINT_VIDEO_MAC_FULLSCREEN_MENU_VISIBILITY(3) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading a page from the SDL3 FUNCTIONS manual and honestly? it's a little niche but it's giving very specific macOS energy and i'm obsessed 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

SDL_HINT_VIDEO_MAC_FULLSCREEN_MENU_VISIBILITY — a variable that says how visible the menu is when a window is fullscreen in Spaces on macOS. that's it, that's the whole job 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <SDL3/SDL_hints.h>

#define SDL_HINT_VIDEO_MAC_FULLSCREEN_MENU_VISIBILITY "SDL_VIDEO_MAC_FULLSCREEN_MENU_VISIBILITY"

no cap, that's the whole incantation 🪄

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the variable can be set to these values, and each one is a whole different vibe:

• "0" — the menu is hidden when the window is in a fullscreen space, and you cannot get to it by moving the mouse to the top of the screen. gone. inaccessible. poof 💀
• "1" — the menu is accessible when the window is in a fullscreen space. it's right there, reachable, thriving 💅
• "auto" — the menu is hidden if fullscreen mode was toggled on programmatically via SDL_SetWindowFullscreen(), and accessible if fullscreen was entered via the "fullscreen" button on the window title bar. this is the default 👑

this hint can be set anytime. yes, ANYTIME. no timing stress, no "wait until init", you're free 🌈

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✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

this hint has been around since SDL 3.2.0 — so if you're on anything older, bestie, it's simply not happening 🙈

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and that's the whole page!! every flag, every value, every default, all accounted for, nothing skipped, periodt 💜

this lil love letter to you came from the Simple Directmedia Layer crew, sitting at version SDL 3.4.18 — go be the main character of your own fullscreen setup, mwah 🫶✨