How to Maximize Setup Toolkit Window

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Setup Toolkit for Windows does not provide any options or functions for maximizing the frame window. The frame window will always be initially displayed as an unmaximized window with a caption.

However, you can call the Windows ShowWindow and SetWindowLong application programming interface (API) functions from a script to maximize the frame and remove the caption. If the calls are made at the beginning of the script, there will be only a quick flicker as the window size and border are changed. The following code can be used to do this:

''following were taken from windows.h. &H means they're hex
CONST WS_VISIBLE=&H10000000
CONST WS_BORDER =&H00800000
CONST WS_CLIPCHILDREN =&H02000000
CONST GWL_STYLE =-16
CONST SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED=3

DECLARE FUNCTION ShowWindow  LIB "user.exe" (hWnd%,iShow%) AS INTEGER
DECLARE FUNCTION SetWindowLong LIB "user.exe" (hWnd%, offset%, style&)
                AS LONG     ''this declaration must all be on one line

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hWnd%=HwndFrame()
i1&=SetWindowLong(hWnd%,GWL_STYLE,WS_VISIBLE+WS_BORDER+WS_CLIPCHILDREN)
j1%=ShowWindow(hWnd%,SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED)
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Additional query words: 3.10 MSSetup tool kit

Keywords : kb16bitonly
Version : WINDOWS:3.1
Platform : WINDOWS
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