Console Resizing

I am trying to create a method in a class that will create a console window to the desired size. However I am having some serious issues with this seemingly simple task. This code below is a hash together of code from Adrianxw's site and some stuff I found here.

This code here works exactly as expected. But the second I put this into a class and try it, it does not work (I cut and paste the code into a constructor). Also compiled this in another compiler (Visual C++) and it doesn't work. It is really frustrating me because this is a very simple peice of code. Of course the error messages returned from the functions are useless as it appears to be incorrect.

Code:

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#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream.h>

int main()
{
    HANDLE hOut;
    CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO SBInfo;
    COORD NewSBSize;
    int Status;

    hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

    NewSBSize.X = (short)90;
    NewSBSize.Y = (short)31;

    Status = SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(hOut, NewSBSize);
    if (Status == 0)
    {
        Status = GetLastError();
        cout << "Buffer: Failed! Error: " << Status << endl;
    }


    SMALL_RECT DisplayArea;

    DisplayArea.Bottom = 30;
    DisplayArea.Right = 89;
    Status = SetConsoleWindowInfo(hOut, TRUE, &DisplayArea);

    if (Status == 0)
    {
        Status = GetLastError();
        cout << "Screen: Failed! Error: " << Status << endl;
    }

    cin.get();

    return 0;
}

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Code:

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#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream.h>

class CScreen
{
private:
public:
        CScreen(void);
};

CScreen::CScreen(void)
{
    // Stuff would normally go here...
}

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

int main(void)
{
        CScreen *scr = new CScreen;

        HANDLE hOut;
        CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO SBInfo;
        COORD NewSBSize;
        int Status;

        hOut = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);

        NewSBSize.X = (short)90;
        NewSBSize.Y = (short)31;

        Status = SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(hOut, NewSBSize);

        GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(hOut, &SBInfo);
        if (Status == 0)
        {
                Status = GetLastError();
                cout << "Buffer: Failed! Error: " << Status << endl;
        }


        SMALL_RECT DisplayArea;

        DisplayArea.Bottom = 30;
        DisplayArea.Right = 89;
        Status = SetConsoleWindowInfo(hOut, TRUE, &DisplayArea);

        if (Status == 0)
        {
            Status = GetLastError();
            cout << "Screen: Failed! Error: " << Status << endl;
        }

        cout << "Maximum X : " << SBInfo.dwMaximumWindowSize.X << endl;
        cout << "Maximum Y : " << SBInfo.dwMaximumWindowSize.Y << endl;

        cin.get();

        return 0;
}

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OKay, this is really bizzare. Just the act of creating a class and instantiating it prevents this from working! The above code kind of works as I am allocating memory for the class (for some reason it the console function calls work but the resize does not work in the X direction).

If I were to create the object on the stack, the console resize does not work (the SetConsoleWindowInfo() call fails). If I create the object on the heap (as above), it seems to work (i.e. no errors), but the console does resize correctly in the X direction. This makes not sense whatsoever as the class is completely unrelated to the rest of the code!

It of course does not work under MSVC++ at all (having made appropriate changes to the includes etc).