[RESOLVED] DOS window in Full Screen

First let me say I understand that what I am asking is not reasonable, but the fact of the mater is that people dislike change, and better ways of doing things. So, this is a quest to make people comfortable.

For my application I call a batch file that runs a DOS program in a CMD window. It works fine except I need the CMD window to start in Full Screen (like the alt+enter hot key). Is there a way to have the window start up like this or is the alt+enter key need to be pressed manually?

Thanks for any input.
-RT

I don't know of a way to emulate those keys, but this might be acceptable

Code:

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Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" _
(ByVal lpClassName As String, _
ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long

Private Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, _
ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long

Private Const SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3

Private Sub MaximizeDOSWindow(Optional Caption As Variant)
    Dim hwnd As Long
   
    ' if argument is omitted, don't care for window caption
    If IsMissing(Caption) Then Caption = vbNullString
   
    ' find the window
    hwnd = FindWindow("ConsoleWindowClass", Caption)

    If hwnd Then
        ShowWindow hwnd, SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub Command1_Click()
MaximizeDOSWindow
End Sub

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This might work but I am using a shell
so the app is stopping at the shell and not processing any maximize code.

Is there a way to force the application to continue in the background?

I set the default CMD window properties to 'Full Screen'

This was done outside of the program

While it is resolved for me, I am still curious to find out if there is a way to do it in the application.