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Full screen console applications

May 19th, 2006

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.
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Re: Full screen console applications

May 20th, 2006

Here's a code snippet which I found.

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#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;
}
#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;
}