starting with a maximized window

How do you make the window maximized when the program starts?

Well presumably you'd use WS_MAXIMIZE when you specify the windows style in the CreateWindowEx() function. But when I do that, it removes the X, minimize, maximize boxes, and makes the window useless....

So I'm not exactly sure how to specify the style. It almost seems like it will only create a maximized window as a CHILD window of some other process... that doesn't seem right..

Try using WS_MAXIMISE with the

WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW

style as well.

Tried that... doesn't work. In fact, nothing seems to work. No matter where I put it, it never makes a maximized window.. grrr....

hwnd = CreateWindow(blah, blah, blah);
ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_MAXIMIZE);