Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!gpsteffl
From: gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler)
Subject: Re: Full screen windows
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.203344.28105@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Gerbils On Speed Inc.
References: <10623@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 20:33:44 GMT
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In article <10623@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rob@jarthur.claremont.edu (Rob McKaughan) writes:
>This may be a very naive question, but:

No question is too naive concerning windows programming.

>How do you create a full screen window like Corel Draw's full screen
>preview, or any screen saver does?

Easily.

Open a "static" window without the WS_BORDER or WS_CAPTION styles.  Then
grab a DC for the window, and wail away at it.  Works for me.  By the way,
to capture keyboard messages, simply peekmessage the window handle returned
for WM_KEY* messages (*not* WM_CHAR).  I have had problems capturing mouse
input, so I simply set the mouse capture to the window, and peekmessage
for any WM_MOUSE* messages.  Hey, it may not be elegant, but it works!

>Do you have to get down to low level GDI or what?

Ack! Ouppt! Pfftspht!  NO!

>Rob
>rob@jarthur.claremont.edu
>uunet!jarthur!rob

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