Thread: Console Window Possibilities.....

..just out of interest, could some of you post code showing the capabilities of the console window?

i know theres a few tricks you can do but, i would like to get an idea of what kind of creative stuff people have managed to do with it.

thanks,

Originally Posted by The Brain

Here is probably the best tutorial on how to do everything with the DOS console... an introduction into 'event-model' programing.

http://www.adrianxw.dk/

thanks for the linky, ive used this site once or twice along time ago though, thought it didnt get updated tbh.

mean while, if anybody has done anything fancy with it feel free to post a screenshot or some code..........

Well, you can make the console fill the screen, thus eliminates the "window" aspect of it.

Code:

void FS ( void ); // prototype

void FS ( void )
{
   keybd_event(VK_MENU, 0x38, 0, 0);
   keybd_event(VK_RETURN, 0x1c, 0, 0);
   keybd_event(VK_RETURN, 0x1c, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
   keybd_event(VK_MENU, 0x38, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0);
}

In main, call FS() to see the result, this function does however require the
windows.h header file, so you will need the platform SDk installed