Full screen console applications
 

Hey,


I have a problem using Visual Studio 2005. In the MSDN library it says there is a function called SetConsoleDisplayMode. This function though is not in the 2005 library. I'm assuming its an old reference from VS 2003. Does anyone know how to tell a console program to switch into full screen mode?

Any help is appreciated.
- Daniel

Re: Full screen console applications
 

Here's a code snippet which I found.

#include <windows.h>

#include <iostream>



BOOL NT_SetConsoleDisplayMode(HANDLE hOutputHandle, DWORD dwNewMode)

{

    typedef BOOL (WINAPI *SCDMProc_t) (HANDLE, DWORD, LPDWORD);

    SCDMProc_t SetConsoleDisplayMode;

    HMODULE hKernel32;

    BOOL bFreeLib = FALSE, ret;

    const char KERNEL32_NAME[] = "kernel32.dll";



    hKernel32 = GetModuleHandleA(KERNEL32_NAME);

    if (hKernel32 == NULL)

    {

        hKernel32 = LoadLibraryA(KERNEL32_NAME);

        if (hKernel32 == NULL)

            return FALSE;



        bFreeLib = true;

    }//if



    SetConsoleDisplayMode = 

        (SCDMProc_t)GetProcAddress(hKernel32, "SetConsoleDisplayMode");

    if (SetConsoleDisplayMode == NULL)

    {

        SetLastError(ERROR_CALL_NOT_IMPLEMENTED);

        ret = FALSE;

    }//if

    else

    {

        DWORD dummy;

        ret = SetConsoleDisplayMode(hOutputHandle, dwNewMode, &dummy);

    }//else

        

    if (bFreeLib)

        FreeLibrary(hKernel32);



    return ret;

}//NT_SetConsoleDisplayMode



int main( void )

{

  NT_SetConsoleDisplayMode( GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE ), 1 );

  std::cin.get();

  return 0;

}