Full Screen help...

[OuTLawZGoSu]

How can i make a form go on full screen?

[BoBBaGe]

on the form, make the borderstyle 0 - None
then on the form, make the windowstate 2 - Maximized

that will bring you to a complete full screen

or you could have the borderstyle 0 - None
and on Form_Load() have  Form1.WindowState = 2

[Camel]

Eh, that's not really fullscreen, that's more "taking up the entire screen assuming all of the other applications want to play fair."

[drivehappy]

Well if you put it that way, I guess the only way would be to use DirectX .

[Adron]

Making a window cover the entire screen is the way you normally do fullscreen. MSN sometimes pops up over fullscreen games - if applications don't want to play fair, they'll probably find a way to put themselves on top.

[j0k3r]

There's a command or window property or something that makes it so you can't click off the form, and nothing is on top of the form... I just don't remember the command sorry maybe someone who knows more will know.

[Adron]

Are you thinking of WS_EX_TOPMOST?

[j0k3r]

That doesn't seem right, I think it was an actual property of the window... Forgot it though.

[EvilCheese]

It would be helpful to know what you're trying to achieve (is this to be a full-screen game, or a nag-screen, or what?)

If it's for a game, then this is the code my D3DCore class uses for setting fullscreen... I'm not sure how it would look in VB, but it might help you:

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   if(fullscreen && m_bWindowed)
   {
      //First adjust window style to remove title bars etc.
      SetWindowLong(m_hWnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_POPUP|WS_SYSMENU|WS_VISIBLE);

      //First try a simple adapter reset
      D3DDISPLAYMODE adaptermode;

      if(m_pD3D != NULL)
      {
         if( FAILED(m_pD3D->GetAdapterDisplayMode(D3DADAPTER_DEFAULT, &adaptermode)) )
            return ERR_COREFAILURE;
      
         m_d3dpp.Windowed = false;
         m_d3dpp.BackBufferHeight = adaptermode.Height;
         m_d3dpp.BackBufferWidth = adaptermode.Width;
         m_d3dpp.FullScreen_RefreshRateInHz = adaptermode.RefreshRate;
         

         if( ! FAILED(m_pDevice->Reset(&m_d3dpp)) )
         {
            SetWindowPos(m_hWnd, HWND_TOP, 0, 0, adaptermode.Width, adaptermode.Height, 0);
            m_bWindowed = false;
            Pause(false);
            return 1;
         }
         else return ERR_DEVICENOTRESET;
      
      }
      else return ERR_COREFAILURE;
      
   }


[DarkMinion]

I know you just did not post MFC code on this forum.  

[EvilCheese]

You're correct.... I didnt

[OuTLawZGoSu]

thx for all ye rhelp... i was looking for a fullscreen on a regular form.
i got it now....

[EvilCheese]

No worries.

Once thing I'm curious about though..... DM, what made you think that was MFC code?

It's actually the D3D9 API, but I'm interested to know how you drew that conclusion.

[DarkMinion]

m_

I always get suspicious of possible MFC infections when I see that.