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- From: swesterback@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- Subject: Re: Setting Client Area to entire screen
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.165405.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
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- References: <1992Aug11.233710.18600@u.washington.edu> <1992Aug28.074510.6581@adobe.com> <1992Sep4.110901.89996@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:54:05 GMT
-
- In article <1992Sep4.110901.89996@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, che358w@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
- > In article <1992Aug28.074510.6581@adobe.com>, epperson@adobe.com (Mark Epperson) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug11.233710.18600@u.washington.edu> goble@hardy.u.washington.edu (Brian Goble) writes:
- >> %%How do Win apps such a WinGif (and many other graphics/paint programs)
- >> %%implement their "Full Screen" option? That is, what are they doing to
- >> %%make their Client Area the entire screen (no windows stuff at all--it's
- >> %%all client area).
- >>
- >> Start by moving the windows upper left corner off up and left so that
- >> the client areas origin is in the upper le~t corner of the screen. Then
- >> resize the window to make the client area the same size a~ the screen.
- >>
- >> MarkEppyrson
- >
- > I think that these apps. use a windows style that does not include border,
- > caption, system menu etc and set w=getsystemmetrics(sm_cxscreen) and similarly
- > for the height and of course x=0, y=0 I don't have my references here so I
- > can't tell you exactly but I think that style:=ws_popup brings up an appropriate
- > sort of window or else try style:=style or(not ws_caption and ws_sysmenu). I
- > don't think that's exactly right but you get the idea.
- I have read in some book (Charles Petzold?) that the whole screen can be
- reserved by requesting an hDC to a logical name, SCREEN, in the same way as
- the printer device context is opened. I am not sure about this...
-
- The same full screen device is also uses by Microsofts and others installation
- programs. As you may have noticed you can often switch to other programs
- while the full screen installation program is running (i.e., using alt-tab).
-
- Sten
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