Borderless window in standalone player

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Is it possible to make the Unity windows standalone player run borderless? This would be similar to the OSX Dashboard Widget.

`
function Start ()
{
 if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.WindowsPlayer)
 {
    Screen.fullScreen = false;

    print("Disable window border here");
 }
}
`

Why is this a wiki?

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This confuses me too... what is going on here?

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This seems like a really sensible question to me. I have done this sort of thing in prior games, and it would be really nice to be able to do it with Unity, too.

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As far as I know, there is no option on the API to run your app borderless :(, if you get to know how, let me know :)

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Have you tried my script.

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Of course it’s easy. I do it by creating a shortcut or batch file that starts the exe, instead of running the exe file. For example, a batch file. This is just an example, so say our EXE name is RUN.EXE. You would open Notepad, type the following:

start RUN.EXE -popupwindow

Then File> Save as> and in the filename where it says .txt originally, just remove that and use an asterick and a bat extension (*.bat) Hit ENTER, then it will know you want to save as a bat file. Now just type in a name like Launcher.bat, don’t forget to remove the asterick but keep the .bat extension. Now you would run this Launcher file. The argument -popupwindow is what allows your Unity Standalone EXE to run without borders :smiley:

Also if you create a shortcut to your exe on your desktop, just go to the shortcut properties and add the -popupwindow argument to the target.

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hey, great solution!!! i wish i could vote this up =)

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finally solved my problem, thank you very much!

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Thank you!!!!

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Always happy to help ;)

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There is now a setting in Player Settings for the fullscreen mode. Set it to Fullscreen Window.

Fullscreen is different from borderless; a borderless window does not have to cover the entire screen. Fullscreen does. When you're driving 2 monitors, each with their own app, borderless windows are useful (you can't use Fullscreen in that case).

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You can use external tools such as AutoHotKey to get rid of the window decorations/borders/title. Note however that Unity's rendering canvas will be scaled, not resized, so you will lose some Anti-Aliasing quality - unless you have AA disabled, in which case you will gain some antialiasing due to the interpolated scaling.

Take a look at this thread for detailed information: http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=242644

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I just uploaded a unity build-in plugin that lets you do exactly what you ask for (Removing window borders and gives you the ability to move and resize the window through code)

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Using user32.dll

http://www.pixelstudio.nl/?p=204