How to maximize the console window.

[William Johns]

I can maximize the console window (of a running .EXE
program) manually by clicking on the full-screen button
in the console's toolbar. Is there a way to program this
in--so this particular program runs with the window
maximized (full screen) whenever it is run?

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[Adam J. Drake]

Here's a way to programmatically toggle it with the Keyboard:

#INCLUDE "WIN32API.INC"

FUNCTION PBMAIN() AS LONG
    
    PRINT "TEST"
    WAITKEY$
    
    Keybd_event 0, 0, 0, 0
    Keybd_event %VK_MENU, MapVirtualKey(%VK_MENU, 0), %KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0
    Keybd_event %VK_RETURN, MapVirtualKey(%VK_RETURN, 0), %KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0
    Keybd_event %VK_MENU, MapVirtualKey(%VK_MENU, 0), %KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY OR %KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
    Keybd_event %VK_RETURN, MapVirtualKey(%VK_RETURN, 0), %KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY OR %KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
    Keybd_event 0, 0, %KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
            
    WAITKEY$
    
    Keybd_event 0, 0, 0, 0
    Keybd_event %VK_MENU, MapVirtualKey(%VK_MENU, 0), %KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0
    Keybd_event %VK_RETURN, MapVirtualKey(%VK_RETURN, 0), %KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY, 0
    Keybd_event %VK_MENU, MapVirtualKey(%VK_MENU, 0), %KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY OR %KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
    Keybd_event %VK_RETURN, MapVirtualKey(%VK_RETURN, 0), %KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY OR %KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
    Keybd_event 0, 0, %KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
    
    WAITKEY$
    
END FUNCTION

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[Lance Edmonds]

pb/cc full-screen/windowed mode switching:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=23880


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lance
powerbasic support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</a>

[William Johns]

Thanks, Adam and Lance, for your replies.
THE CODE WORKS!!! I had hoped there was just
a "switch" to set, or something. My .EXE
program balloons from 27k to 31k to do the
Library call, but if that's the only way to
do it, then that's reality. Again, I
appreciate greatly your excellent & timely help.

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[Michael Mattias]

>My .EXE program balloons from 27k to 31k

The Youth of America are truly spoiled when a 31 Kb Windows EXE is considered "ballooned".