Question

I’m trying to write a full screen application for Windows CE 5.0. I’m using CEGCC under Linux to compile my application, so I’m restricted to Windows API – i.e. no fancy GUI designer stuff, no Visual Studio, no MFC, no .NET.

So far, I tried Microsoft’s example using SHFullScreen, but no luck. I do not want to hide the taskbar globally (i.e. I want it to behave normally when my application closes, or should I say crashes, and is unable to restore its state).

Any ideas on this one? A simple program that does this (for sure, not just “I think so”), i.e. displays a window in Windows CE 5.0 (or any Windows CE/Mobile/Embedded I guess, so I at least have a clue) that extends from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of the screen, over the taskbar, would be really helpful.

Google didn’t help me much, in case you’re asking (but maybe I didn’t use the right terms today).

Cheers

Answer 1

I managed to solve all my requirements by putting this in WndProc under case WM_CREATE:

int ScreenWidth = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);
int ScreenHeight = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);

SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOPMOST, 0, 0, ScreenWidth, ScreenHeight, 0);
HWND TaskBarWnd = FindWindow("HHTaskBar", "");
if (TaskBarWnd != NULL)
    SetWindowPos(TaskBarWnd, HWND_NOTOPMOST, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOACTIVATE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE);