I'm making an old-school text-based adventure game and I wish to make the console full screen.
This would help in capturing the atmosphere of old games like that, but how can I go about doing this?
Thank you for your reply!
How can I make a console app full screen in C#?
First off, I am not a C# master so take this with a grain of salt. Perhaps someone could expand or offer a better solution. It seems like there should be an easy way to do this, but I guess not.
I got this code/discussion from here in case you wanted to read what the others had to say.
Here's some code:
Edit: Forgot to say this is not true full screen and the display height and width would determine the size of the screen so it might not be an acceptable solution....
I got this code/discussion from here in case you wanted to read what the others had to say.
Here's some code:
using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Linq;using System.Text;using System.Runtime.InteropServices;namespace ConsoleApplication1{ class Program { [DllImport("kernel32.dll", ExactSpelling = true)] private static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow(); private static IntPtr ThisConsole = GetConsoleWindow(); [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)] private static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow); private const int HIDE = 0; private const int MAXIMIZE = 3; private const int MINIMIZE = 6; private const int RESTORE = 9; static void Main(string[] args) { Console.SetWindowSize(Console.LargestWindowWidth, Console.LargestWindowHeight); ShowWindow(ThisConsole, MAXIMIZE); Console.WriteLine("Hello World in Full Screen!"); Console.ReadLine(); } }}Edit: Forgot to say this is not true full screen and the display height and width would determine the size of the screen so it might not be an acceptable solution....
I am not sure full screen mode is supported any more. To prove this open a command prompt with start->run 'cmd' and press alt-enter. You will get a message 'This system does not support fullscreen mode.' As i have understood from vista onwards this is not supported so anyone beyond XP (which lets face it, is an old and fast-becoming unsupported OS!) won't be able to play your game fullscreen anyway.
You might want to take note that this is a depreciated feature before coding in support for it at all.
Instead you could emulate full screen in XNA with a SpriteFont, or something like that? It would appear like fullscreen but be much wider in compatibility than trying a real text-mode fullscreen.
You might want to take note that this is a depreciated feature before coding in support for it at all.
Instead you could emulate full screen in XNA with a SpriteFont, or something like that? It would appear like fullscreen but be much wider in compatibility than trying a real text-mode fullscreen.
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