My Path 🛣 Through MonoGame and Beyond + Beginners Guides + XBOX/UWP

MrValentine · July 1, 2020, 9:24am

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> Fix for UWP 3.8DevBranch template

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You need to have:

using System;
...
using Windows.ApplicationModel;
using Windows.ApplicationModel.Activation;
...
using Windows.UI.ViewManagement;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
...
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;

In your App.xaml.cs

And then just at the start of everything:

/// <summary>
/// Provides application-specific behavior to supplement the default Application class.
/// </summary>
sealed partial class App : Application
{
    static string deviceFamily;

Add that field static string deviceFamily;

And add:

    //API check to ensure the "RequiresPointerMode" property exists, ensuring project is running on build 14393 or later
    if (Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ApiInformation.IsPropertyPresent("Windows.UI.Xaml.Application", "RequiresPointerMode"))
    {
        //If running on the Xbox, disable the default on screen pointer
        if (IsXbox())
        {
            Application.Current.RequiresPointerMode = ApplicationRequiresPointerMode.WhenRequested;
        }
    }

Before the closing bracket of public App()

And then add:

/// <summary>
/// Detection code in Windows 10 to identify the platform it is being run on
/// This function returns true if the project is running on an XboxOne
/// </summary>
public static bool IsXbox()
{
    if (deviceFamily == null)
        deviceFamily = Windows.System.Profile.AnalyticsInfo.VersionInfo.DeviceFamily;

    return deviceFamily == "Windows.Xbox";
}

Immediately after public App()

And then the top of OnLaunched() should look like this:

/// <summary>
/// Invoked when the application is launched normally by the end user.  Other entry points
/// will be used such as when the application is launched to open a specific file.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="e">Details about the launch request and process.</param>
protected override void OnLaunched(LaunchActivatedEventArgs e)
{

    // By default we want to fill the entire core window.
    ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().SetDesiredBoundsMode(ApplicationViewBoundsMode.UseCoreWindow);

#if DEBUG
    if (System.Diagnostics.Debugger.IsAttached)
    {
        this.DebugSettings.EnableFrameRateCounter = true;
    }
#endif
...
}

Just after that #endif ' you should see 'Frame rootFrame = Window.Current.Content as Frame;....

An additional thing to add:

Add this to public Game1()
_graphics.IsFullScreen = true;

And viola, that’s the full screen template fixed.

Now I think it’s @harry-cpp I should ping to fix this?

Also the XAML pages simply show:

xmlns:local="using:UwpGame">

All the time, this is App.xaml

And the same in GamePage.xaml, it does not appear to cause any issues and I can manually correct it but, um it might fail validation and cause page change issues? I think I noticed this work half the time that it would state the project name, so something is broken somewhere, wish I knew how to fix it but right now, VS hookups are not my scene.

EDIT

Also to note, max 17763 and min 14393 target platforms are required.