Re: w32 fullscreen toggling

["Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

You should make this work with the frame parameter fullscreen.

	Jan D.


Erik Charlebois skrev:
> Attached is a patch to add a function for toggling a frame between 
> fullscreen and windowed state, much like IE8 and Visual Studio's 
> fullscreen modes. A fullscreen frame covers the taskbar and has no 
> window border or title. This provides a builtin way of achieving what 
> darkroom-mode does (darkroom-mode's w32-fullscreen does not cover the 
> taskbar though).
>  
> To the best of my googling, I found that the Microsoft-supported way of 
> achieving this effect is to have a window without the WS_CAPTION or 
> WS_THICKFRAME style and set its size to the exact screen resolution of 
> the monitor it is to be fullscreened on. I've tested this on XP, Vista 
> and Win7 in single and dual monitor configurations. Resolution changes 
> or Emacs-driven position/size changes (e.g. toggling scroll-bar-mode or 
> menu-mode) are correctly handled (the frame remains fullscreen). If a 
> secondary monitor is disconnected, any fullscreen frames on that screen 
> are punted back to window mode so they look normal when Windows 
> repositions them.
> 
> -- 
> Erik Charlebois