Re: Fullscreen and screen saver

From: Arvind (r_at_erivasystems.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:59:28 +0530

yeah place the code under the following would work. atleast it did for me.

case WM_ACTIVATE:
//your code here
break; 

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<r_z_aret@pen_fact.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:05:48 +0100, Karsten Patzwaldt
> <karsten@gate5.de> wrote:
>
> >I'm working on a program that runs in fullscreen most of the time. The
> >code for entering fullscreen mode looks like this:
> >
> >         RECT rc;
> >         GetWindowRect(m_hwnd, &rc);
> >         rc.top = 0;
> >
> >         SetForegroundWindow(m_hwnd);
> >         SHFullScreen(m_hwnd, SHFS_HIDETASKBAR);
> >         SHFullScreen(m_hwnd, SHFS_HIDESIPBUTTON);
> >         SHFullScreen(m_hwnd, SHFS_HIDESTARTICON);
>
> For this piece, I use one call:
> SHFullScreen( m_hwn, SHFS_HIDETASKBAR | SHFS_HIDESIPBUTTON |
> SHFS_HIDESTARTICON )
>
> I'm surprised separate calls (such as your method) work, and hope
> someone else will clarify.
>
> >
> >         MoveWindow(m_hwnd, rc.left, rc.top, rc.right - rc.left,
> >rc.bottom - rc.top, TRUE);
> >
> >That works pretty good, except when other windows pop up. On the iPaq
> >hx4700, after the screen saver popped up, the keyboard button and the
> >task bar are visible again. Same thing happens when the bluetooth device
> >selection dialog pops up (the one that is opened automatically when you
> >open the serial port that is connected to the bluetooth manager) and is
> >closed again.
> >
> >I realize that simply calling that code pasted above again hides the
> >controls again, but I don't know how to find out when to call them. I
> >stepped through all uncatched events when closing the popup windows, but
> >I could not find any that uniquely identify that specific event.
> >
> >Is there a way to find out whether my window was hidden behind a popup
> >and became visible again?
>
> I concur with the earlier post that suggests handling WM_ACTIVATE
> messages. I certainly seems to work for me, although I haven't done
> extensive testing.
>
>
> >
> >Thank you,
> >
> > Karsten
>
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