Introduction

Display Overlord adds methods and classes to gather video device capabilities and capture displays, providing full screen environments suitable for games, multimedia presentations, or kiosk applications. While captured, Display Overlord locks out other applications and system-wide widgets such as the Mac OS X Dock and Exposé functions. Backgrounded application windows and desktop icons will not be disturbed, providing a safe and user-friendly method to temporarily change display resolutions.

Important: Although REALbasic's built-in Screen class contains some overlapping functionality you should not assume that device indexes or metrics will always match between these two APIs. The built-in classes can be safely used side-by-side with Display Overlord if needed, but their respective properties should never be intermingled.

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Documentation Notes

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