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cmd prompt running in fullscreen and interupted with some gui app, cmd
prompt "falls down".
is it posible to have it automaticly restored to fullscreen after
interupting gui app finishes?
 
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cmd prompt running in fullscreen and interupted with some gui app,
cmd prompt "falls down".
is it posible to have it automaticly restored to fullscreen after
interupting gui app finishes?
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I've never seen that (W2K). Really "Fullscreen" (eg ALT+Enter)
and cmd.exe?
 
I don't think so; it would be up to the interrupting GUI application to
take care of restoring the interrupted application to full screen mode.
OTOH the only user action needed to return to the full screen console
application should be the Enter key as the task bar focus should return
to it; worst case would require switching back with Alt-Tab.

I think the more common case is that GUI messages don't show up at all
when a full screen console is running until Alt-Tab is used.
I've never seen that (W2K). Really "Fullscreen" (eg ALT+Enter)
and cmd.exe?
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AFAIK you can run any console application in full screen mode: ftp,
telnet, nslookup, 4NT, Kermit95. Doesn't that work in your environment?
 
In said:
I don't think so; it would be up to the interrupting GUI
application to take care of restoring the interrupted application
to full screen mode. OTOH the only user action needed to return to
the full screen console application should be the Enter key as the
task bar focus should return to it; worst case would require
switching back with Alt-Tab.

I think the more common case is that GUI messages don't show up at
all when a full screen console is running until Alt-Tab is used.


AFAIK you can run any console application in full screen mode:
ftp, telnet, nslookup, 4NT, Kermit95. Doesn't that work in your
environment?
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No, I meant not-command.com or DOS apps. IOW is this a cmd.exe
window or Win32 console app or? I've never seen any window force a
switch away from Fullscreen cmd.exe. But then I don't run cmd FS
that often so perhaps I've just never seen it. Any common replicable
examples known?
 
Mark V said:
No, I meant not-command.com or DOS apps. IOW is this a cmd.exe
window or Win32 console app or? I've never seen any window force a
switch away from Fullscreen cmd.exe. But then I don't run cmd FS
that often so perhaps I've just never seen it. Any common replicable
examples known?
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very simple demonstration:
run next script [wscript] containing heavy loop giving the script run for
few seconds
-----------------
dim i,j,t
t=1000
for i=1 to t
for j=1 to t
next
next
wscript.echo "look at me!"
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in the meantime bring cmd.exe into fullscreen and wait.
when script finishes wscript.echo will force windowed display mode.
although i must admit that in windowed mode on my xp [5.1.2600] cmd.exe
still
keeps focus, and windows script host blinks yellow to attract attention.
i am going to check w2k and w9x behaviour.
 
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