Re: Full screen mode on windows

[dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>]

Hi,
 I have the following key mapping and it just works fine on M$. You
can add tests to check if tool bar is enabled and remove it, restore
it later by storing keeping track (the way I restore - max/restore).

(global-set-key [(control ?=)] '(lambda ()
				  (interactive)
				  (if (and (boundp '*frame-max) *frame-max)
				      (progn
					(setq *frame-max nil)
					(w32-send-sys-command 61728))
				    (progn
				      (setq *frame-max t)
				      (w32-send-sys-command 61488)))))


-dhruva

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Evans Winner <thorne@timbral.net> wrote:
> Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2008-06-07@kanis.fr> writes:
>
>    AFAIK Emacs in the command prompt will not display
>    picture and bdf fonts, I use both extensively.  I don't
>    think it has mouse support either which I use from time
>    to time.
>
> I have wanted a feature like this for a long time for W32.
> I started a brief gnu.emacs.help thread on the question in
> March [1].  At home I use stumpwm which puts all
> applications in a true fullscreen mode that maximizes
> available screen area while still allowing the use of GUI
> tools like the mouse and nice fonts, etc.  But at work I am
> stuck with W32 and can't get that effect easily.
>
> Also, I suspect that a nice presentation package would be
> fairly easy to write for Emacs and could be quite useful,
> but it would be helpful for such a program to have access by
> way of Emacs lisp to a true fullscreen toggle on all
> platforms.  The problem is that the W32 environment does not
> seem to provide a high-level or easily accessed function to
> do that.  An attempt seems to have been made that requires
> python[2].
>
> There is also some interest in programs like Dark Room or
> Writeroom which are text editors that are designed to be
> visually minimalistic for the purpose of reducing
> distractions.  (There is a page on the EmacsWiki that
> describes some related hacks [3].)  Emacs is evolved for use
> as a text editor for coding and some related things;
> features like a totally blank screen save text (no title
> bars or tool bars, etc.) seem to be of interest more to
> writers of fiction and poetry, and so forth.  A related
> feature that would be nice for the ``Writeroom'' editing
> style, or for a presentation manager, is that of a
> disappearing mode-line, similar to the ``auto-hide''
> function available for the ``task-bar'' used in the Windows
> GUI.  I know one attempt has been made to implement this for
> Emacs[4], though it does not reclaim that space (or
> minibuffer space) for editing use, which would be nice.
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] I don't know how to cite Usenet messages.
> The Google archive says it is:
> Message-ID: <3112661d-c08e-412b-91f1-9e7ec192dc67@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
> A direct link to the Google web archived thread is:
> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/d97ba81a2428d37e/4e4024398a44deba?lnk=st&q=emacsw32+fullscreen#4e4024398a44deba
>
> [2]  http://www.martyn.se/code/emacs/darkroom-mode/
>
> [3]  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WriteRoom
>
> [4]  http://dse.livejournal.com/66834.html
>
>
>
>
>



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