Thread: DOS fullscreen

I would like to put my DOS programs into fullscreen using some sort of code (in MS Visual C++ 6.0 standard). On windows 98 you can press a button on the DOS console to make it fullscreen, but you can't in XP. And beside the point, I want to make my programs fullscreen without the user having to do anything, so some sort of code would be nice. (wow, that was redundant)

You can try a trick like this:

Code:

#include <windows.h>

void
fullscreen()
{
  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);
}

It simulates Alt+Enter to bring an application into full screen mode.

Works perfectly, many thanks, Prelude