Help changing application's size to full screen at startup 1

[lhilliard]

I am using Win 32 API (No MFC) and am trying to set the application's initial size to full screen. This is what I currently have:

hWnd=CreateWindow(szWindowClass,szTitle,WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,CW_USEDEFAULT, 0, CW_USEDEFAULT, 0, NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);

I searched MSDN for help and found nothing except some talk on CW_USEDEFAULT. Can someone please help?

 

[SteveD73]

Hi

Im not sure but I think if you put:

| WS_MAXIMIZED,

after WS_OVERLAPEDWINDOW it my maximize your window.

 

[lhilliard]

I tried that and there was no difference. The screen did not come up maximized. Any other ideas?

 

[SteveD73]

I think I made a typo. Try:

WS_OVERLAPEDWINDOW | WS_MAXIMIZE

Does that work?

 

[hwnd216]

try
WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_POPUP

 

[lhilliard]

I have already tried WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_MAXIMIZE to no avail.

When I used WS_OVERLAPPED | WS_POPUP, the executable started but was only displayed as what appeared to be minimized along the Windows bar at the bottom of my screen. When I tried to right click to maximize or left click to maximize nothing happenned.

 

[TGM]

Hi

You can use the following:

for a SDI application:

At the end of the InitInstance Function, replace the SW_SHOW parameter of the function ShowWindow by SW_MAXIMIZE.

// The one and only window has been initialized, so show and update it.
m_pMainWnd->ShowWindow(SW_MAXIMIZE);
m_pMainWnd->UpdateWindow();

for a Dialog-based application:

in the function OnInitDialog of the Dialog class, add this:

ShowWindow( SW_MAXIMIZE);

I dont' try here for MDI but I guess it would be the same as SDI.

HTH

Thierry
EMail: Thierry.Marneffe@swing.be

 

[lhilliard]

ShowWindow(hWnd,SW_MAXIMIZE) worked.

Thanks Thierry!