Thread: Full screen dos box?

For Win98, cosonle prog, and GCC, how do you make your program switch to full screen mode immediately, if it isn't already?

Originally posted by Shadow
For Win98, cosonle prog, and GCC, how do you make your program switch to full screen mode immediately, if it isn't already?

Edit the default .pif file for Windows to launch in a full screen. (Alternately I believe you can just run 'command' from the runline, and make sure it's full screen, then type exit.)

By the way, this has nothing to do with C programming.

Quzah.

I already know how to do that .

By the way, you didn't come close to answering my question.

Originally posted by Shadow
I already know how to do that .

By the way, you didn't come close to answering my question.

This is a windows setting. It is the default pif it pulls the information from when it creates a console window. Edit THAT and not the pif that is created whenever you execute your dos app. Like I said, this has nothing to do with programming. This is a Windows issue.

Quzah.

you could do what the last guy said, but that would only work on your computer, if you want it to do that automaticaly, if say you gave the program to a freind you'de have to do some coding.

Precisely Unregistered.

I think you could probably find a way to use system() to send a command to dos to run in full screen, but i don't know, try searching google for:

C language auto screen sizing code

I will try that.

Code:

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);

Thanks again, Quzah...

I believe so. The "self made" include file I have it in, has other stuff in it, which that file includes windows.h. I am not sure if the keybd_event needs windows.h though. Try it and find out...