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Bug 1148

Summary: SDL window white upon first appearing
Product: SDL Reporter: Vern Jensen <vern>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Mac OS X 10.6   

Description Vern Jensen 2011-02-23 14:23:39 UTC 
This one may seem minor (and it is), but it'd be great if the window could have black contents when it first appears.

This is a bit more noticeable when fullscreen. The process I can see visually upon starting up is:

A) A white window appears instantly, covering the entire screen.
B) It fades to black.
C) It fades back to white (!)
D) This is then replaced with my splash screen.

It'd be great if steps A and C could just be black. It's particularly noticeable since it starts up not only white in Step A, but we see it again in Step C, all before my program seems to have any control over the window's contents. (Unless I'm missing something.)

If you launch commercial games, you'll see they start up real smoothly, just going to black at startup.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2013-05-21 02:31:00 UTC 
In the latest code on Mac OS X 10.8, a white window shows up in the middle of the screen briefly, but when the screen goes fullscreen the monitor is black at that point.

I just changed it so the initial window starts out black:
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/373d9e4e8ad9