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    Very well,I have a different query now. I scrapped the loading screen, if it is so "pretentious". My question is if I were to automatically maximize the DOS window on loading the program,how would I do so?

    Crap,I meant the DOS window, not Win32 Console window..
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    You'd have to find your console window and send it a maximize command. This involves the WinAPI and is pretty tricky. Console windows are hard to find.
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    Press ALT-Enter... Edit: Or perhaps that's not actually what you want to do...

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    Quote Originally Posted by matsp View Post
    Press ALT-Enter... Edit: Or perhaps that's not actually what you want to do...

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    Lol I need the code to do that, because half the noobs I call friends don't know Alt+Enter maximizes the DOS screen.

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    Startup splash screens are there as "eye candy" to disguise the fact that the software is bloated and is taking longer to load than most normal people would assume to be necessary.

    Like if nothing is visible in about 2 seconds, people start to wonder if it's going to work at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SVXX View Post
    Lol I need the code to do that, because half the noobs I call friends don't know Alt+Enter maximizes the DOS screen.
    Well, if it was easy to do, I'm sure we would have done that when I worked on Windows graphics drivers, because we did quite often need to go to full-screen "dos-box" and back to windows mode again.

    Technically, it doesn't maximize the window, it goes to text-mode in the graphics card. Maximizing the window will make it as tall as the screen and as wide as it needs to be to display the number of columns you've selected (80 for example).

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    I see...so I guess thats a redundant idea as well. Why don't I just add a Notes section and write that,lol

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