Re: Full screen mode on windows

[joakim]

I would suggest looking at the existing fullscreen option for X:

      (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen  'fullboth)

and make that work for w32, if it doesnt already!

Ivan Kanis <address@hidden> writes:      
> Hello,
>
> There is nice feature in Putty called full screen mode. It takes away
> all windows decoration including the taskbar.
>
> I would like to implement this feature natively on emacs. I have two
> ideas for the api:
>
> 1) Either I make a function called w32-toggle-fullscreen and do all
> the right thing in C,
>
> 2) Or I could expose the GetWindowLongPtr, SetWindowLongPtr and
> SetWindowPos as lisp function and write the toggle in lisp.
>
> Which approach is the most likely to get included?
>
> For info here is the Putty code that does the job :
>
>     /* Remove the window furniture. */
>     style = GetWindowLongPtr(hwnd, GWL_STYLE);
>     style &= ~(WS_CAPTION | WS_BORDER | WS_THICKFRAME);
>     if (cfg.scrollbar_in_fullscreen)
>       style |= WS_VSCROLL;
>     else
>       style &= ~WS_VSCROLL;
>     SetWindowLongPtr(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, style);
>
>     /* Resize ourselves to exactly cover the nearest monitor. */
>       get_fullscreen_rect(&ss);
>     SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOP, ss.left, ss.top,
>                       ss.right - ss.left,
>                       ss.bottom - ss.top,
>                       SWP_FRAMECHANGED);
>
> Thanks for your feedbacks.
-- 
Joakim Verona