[Mac] Exiting fullscreen mode can cause crashes/errors

[Karl DD]

Java supports 'fullscreen' functionality but it is super buggy - popup-menus etc will not appear in this mode. Because of this Alchemy uses a soft-fullscreen mode, basically making a window as big as the screen and hiding the window frame.

On a mac this also means hiding the mac menubar, although there is no easy way to do this without using JNI. Right now it is done in a very hacky but easy way, by overriding the windows setVisible method and using NSMenu from the very old Apple-Java API stuff.

As a result it returns errors such as:

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Invalid memory access of location 00000005 eip=903346d8

As fullscreen is an important feature this is well up on my 'todo before next xmas' list.

[Karl DD]

This has been resolved for ALPHA 002 by leaving the menubar on screen in full screen mode and adjusting the window to fit in below it.
This way the menubar is still accessible and consistent with the Windows version.