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Skeleton:
Here is my question: How do you resize a window larger than the desktop?  

I would like to do this because I like the smoothing effect that my video card gives to emulators when running in a window. When running a low res game such as a NES game full screen it looks extremely blocky on a large SVGA monitor, but if I run it in a window and resize it to full screen, it looks great.  The only problem is that I cannot resize the window beyond the size of the desktop (it won't allow it) so I see the window border and menu bar. If I could resize it to slightly larger than the screen, the window borders and menu bar would be off screen and not visible.

I've tried resizing the window with AutoIt and VB API calls, but I haven't met with any success.  The OS doesn't seem to allow the window to be resized to anything larger than the desktop resolution. It would be great if it were simply just a registry hack to allow this.

Please help.

Skeleton:
UPDATE:
I have tried hooking into the Gens emulator window and changing the max size using WM_GETMINMAXINFO, but this didn't seem to work (see knowledge base article Q185733) . I can hook into a VB form and control its maximum size this way, but it doesn't work for the emulator window. I can manipulate the emulator window in other ways (moving it, resizing it, though not larger than the screen resolution )using API calls, so I know I have the correct window handle, but I can't seem affect its maximum size this way.

Argh! Searching the web and newsgroups hasn't turned up any solutions.

enemyace:
Ask Howard, he probably knows...

Howard_Casto:
SETWINDOWSTATE is what you need and put the maximize switch on it, but I can almost guarantee you that it won't work either. This will stretch the contents of the window to full screen and remove the border.   Emulators set their own res for a reason, they use that res as a basis for rendering the graphics.  Usually when you try to tamper with this either you crash the emu or you get a really big window with a really little game running inside it.

Hope that helps.

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