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Re: [Win32] Fullscreen

• Posted by g.haberek at comcast.net Sep 26, 2002
• 537 views

do you want to hide the taskbar also?

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Parslow (PatRat) <tom at almostobsolete.net>
Subject: Re: [Win32] Fullscreen


>
> > I'm working on a database driven alternative to MS Powerpoint, and
already I
> > am stuck:
>
> > What code would be needed to make a window the *full* size of the
screen,
> > and the mouse invisible? No doubt I will have more questions as time
goes by
> > but for now that will do.
>
> > (and sorry if this gets posted twice, I've had problems with my mail
> > account)
>
> Hi,
>
> If you create a window with the WS_POPUP flag like this:
>
> winFullscreen = create( Window, "", 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, {WS_POPUP})
>
> Then open it maximized like this:
>
> openWindow(winFullscreen,Maximize)
>
> Then it will fill the entire screen (including the taskbar of course)
> and will have no caption bar or borders.
>
> As for hiding the mouse I'm not entirely sure, maybe just set the
> cursor of the window to a fully transparent cursor (must be a more
> elegant way, but that would work).
>
> Thomas Parslow (PatRat)
> E-Mail/Jabber: tom at almostobsolete.net
> ICQ: 26359483
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