Thanks for the info.  I'm going to read the source code!

soichi

2012/2/3 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>

> > I am trying to develop an Emacs Lisp program that maximizes
> > the window.  I found and modified the following code, which
> > was originally for Carbon Emacs. ...
> > It does not act as I want it to.
>
> You might also try the code in frame-cmds.el (e.g. `maximize-frame'):
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/frame-cmds.el.  (It requires a
> second
> library, frame-fns.el:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/frame-fns.el.)
>
> It does not depend on the frame parameter `fullscreen', which does not
> exist in
> some Emacs builds.  It takes into consideration the space available on
> Mac-OS,
> via `mac-display-available-pixel-bounds'.
>
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