Console windows replacement (C++)

[Flappish]

Wasn't sure where to place this, but here we go!

So basicly I'm following a tutorial to make a rougelike in c++. This game that this tutorial is instructing is taking place in a win32 console windows. Now in windows 7 you cant fullscreen a console windows often times, which is what i want to do. The library that the game uses also requires for the game use a console windows. I wonder if there's a way to perhaps replace the console windows with something more flexible without having to use another library (thus not being able to follow the tutorial).

[webJose]

Flappish wrote:

Wasn't sure where to place this, but here we go!

So basicly I'm following a tutorial to make a rougelike in c++. This game that this tutorial is instructing is taking place in a win32 console windows. Now in windows 7 you cant fullscreen a console windows often times, which is what i want to do. The library that the game uses also requires for the game use a console windows. I wonder if there's a way to perhaps replace the console windows with something more flexible without having to use another library (thus not being able to follow the tutorial).

In my limited experience I would say there's no way to replace the command in Windows 7 and there's no way to make it fullscreen.

[Flappish]

That's what I thought. Is there any way to use ascii characters but not in a console windows, for example with SDL or something?

[freddie1]

On all my Windows 7 computers, if I have a console window open I can right click up in the title bar and bring up the context sensitive menu where I'll find a 'Properties' setting. Invoking that Dialog Box I can change the font and display location and size of the console window. I'm able to make it run full screen. I use the console a lot that way testing code and debugging. I don't really use it for finished apps very much (sometimes I do just to freak some of my coworkers out and annoy them when I'm in one of those moods). But anyway, I always thought there were low level console functions as part of the console Api where any of those things one can do in the aforementioned Properties Dialog can also be done programmatically? Not?

[modoran]

There are wrappers for cmd.exe like Console2, PowerCmd, Take Command, some of them are commercial products.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
http://jpsoft.com/
http://www.powercmd.com/

[Flappish]

Just thought of something, seeing as this would be very easy to accomplish in c++, shouldn't there be a way to set font size on the actual file? If you create a shortcut there's a line in properties were you can add launch-parameters. Might there be a solution there? Tried googling but didn't come up with much.