Patrick wrote:
> normally, windows uses a resolution of 80x25 chars for consoles. you can
> change manually to 80x43 and 80x50. but i want more ;)
> i just recognized that vim for win32 is able to change it's console width
> and height to any value given by the user. it simply uses SetConsoleScreenBufferSize
> to resize the buffer. so i thougt it should be possible to write a small launcher
> that initializes a console, creates a buffer, resizes it and then launches lynx.
> i used this small programm:
>
> int WINAPI
> WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPSTR, int)
> {
> STARTUPINFO si;
> PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
> HANDLE handle;
> int width=0x50;
> int height=25;
> ZeroMemory (&si, sizeof(si));
> si.cb = sizeof(si);
>
> AllocConsole();
> handle=CreateConsoleScreenBuffer(0xc0000000,0,0,1,0);
> SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer(handle);
> //SetConsoleTitle("Resized Lynx");
> ////handle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
> //COORD co = {width,height};
> //SetConsoleScreenBufferSize(handle, co);
>
> CreateProcess(NULL, "lynx.exe", NULL, NULL, FALSE,
> NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, NULL, NULL, &si, &pi);
>
> return 1;
> }
>
> but lynx refuses to run in this console, even with the undocumentations above.
> so it doesn't like to be run out of a screenbuffer, but this would be pretty use-
> full. any ideas, what i've done wrong or how to patch lynx to run from the
> screenbuffer?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Patrick Nagelschmidt
>
> --
> if the box says 'windows 95 or better', it should run on linux, right?
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