full screen

Is there anyway that you can create a window with no border or title bar or anything; i.e. have its client area fill the entire screen?
Or is there a seperate way to create such programs?


thanks,

dt

Yup....Create a standard window, but exchange the window style for WS_POPUP.......and set the window to cover the screen......like so..

Code:

#include <windows.h>

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

char szClassName[] = "WindowsApp";
HINSTANCE g_hInst;


int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hThisInstance, 
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpszArgument, int nFunsterStil)

{
    HWND hwnd;               
	MSG messages;            
	WNDCLASSEX wincl; 
	int cx,cy;
	
	g_hInst = hThisInstance;

    wincl.hInstance = hThisInstance;
    wincl.lpszClassName = szClassName;
    wincl.lpfnWndProc = WindowProc;      
    wincl.style = CS_DBLCLKS;               
    wincl.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
    wincl.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
    wincl.hIconSm = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
    wincl.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
    wincl.lpszMenuName = NULL;
    wincl.cbClsExtra = 0; 
    wincl.cbWndExtra = 0; 
	wincl.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH) GetStockObject(BLACK_BRUSH);

    
    if(!RegisterClassEx(&wincl)) return 0;

	cx = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);
	cy = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);


    hwnd = CreateWindowEx(0,szClassName, "Windows App",
		WS_POPUP,0,0,cx,cy, HWND_DESKTOP,NULL,            
           hThisInstance,NULL );    

   
    ShowWindow(hwnd, nFunsterStil);
	UpdateWindow(hwnd);
   
    while(GetMessage(&messages, NULL, 0, 0))
    {
          TranslateMessage(&messages);
          DispatchMessage(&messages);
    }

    return messages.wParam;
}


LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProc(HWND hwnd, UINT message, 
							WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    switch (message)                
    {
           case WM_CREATE:            
           
           break;
           
           case WM_PAINT:
           
           break;
           
           case WM_DESTROY:
           PostQuitMessage(0);        
           break;
           default:                   
           return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
    }
    return 0;
}

Fab, thank you

dt