Stop Windows 7 from limiting the width of a window
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| And yes, I've disabled Aero Snap. The problem that I'm having is that Windows 7 won't allow me to programmatically resize a window so that the client area of the window is as wide as my screen (1280 pixels). Instead, like an over-eager puppy that's trying to help so bad it ends up pissing on my boot, Windows 7 prevents the window from being resized past the point where the borders would be off-screen. Even if I manually adjust the window size, it still won't adjust to the full width of the screen. You can see what I'm talking about in the screenshot linked below. http://files.pmnova.com/stuff/window-size-limit-problem.jpg This problem occurs with my own code to resize a window, and with third party code. Any help would be greatly appreciated. And by the way. The ridiculous low character limit for topic titles on this forum still sucks balls. |
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| Just rescale the window each time you open it. or delete the third party code and write your own. :) Last edited 2011 |
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| Just rescale the window each time you open it. or delete the third party code and write your own. :) The problem doesn't lie with either the third-party code, or my own code that I've used to resize the window. The problem lies with Windows 7. And the point of my post was that Windows 7 doesn't allow the window to be rescaled past the point where the window borders are offscreen. How exactly is doing what I'm already doing, and which isn't working, going to fix the problem? |
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| I think this is a video card setting rather than a Windows 7 behavior. "Enable window spanning across multiple displays" is the setting for Nvidia cards that allows a window to be bigger than a screen. Don't know about ATI as I never use them. |
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| @ardee I had a look in the Calalyst control center for my ATI card and couldn't find any setting that looked like it would affect this issue. I'm fairly sure that this is a Windows 7 issue, but I could be wrong. Can somebody with Windows 7 installed please open a folder window and manually try to resize and move the folder window so that the borders and part of the folder window on each side are off screen. I'd like to confirm if this is a common issue, or if it just affects me. In my case, if I try to drag the window border to resize any re-sizable window, there is a limit beyond which the window won't resize. The width limit seems to be a few pixels narrower than the full width of my display. I'd guess the limit is the screen width minus the minimum window border width that can be set. I don't recall having this issue on Windows XP. I'm fairly sure there was no restriction on how wide a resizable window could be. |
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| Win7 has many problems anyway. Get Vista or XP. :) |
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| >>>Win7 has many problems anyway. Get Vista or XP. :) Please stop 'helping' people. |
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| After I turned snap off I was able to get the side boarders of windows off the screen. Only just though- could not get it any larger. |
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| Win7 has many problems anyway. Get Vista or XP. :) Get Vista? - huh, you should banished from the earth for even thinking such things, let alone saying them. Last edited 2011 |
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| So I'm guessing that this issue affects all Windows 7 users and there's no way to override this behavior in software. I guess I'll have to eventually get a monitor that handles a wider display resolution if want windows with a 1280 pixel wide client-area. It's a bit annoying as I record Minecraft gameplay videos for Youtube and wanted to start using windowed mode instead of fullscreen with Minecraft. Windowed mode would allow me to easily exit Minecraft so that I can check documentation for mods, etc. I like a lot of the changes in Windows 7, but some of them just seem to be unnecessary changes made for the sake of making a change. Often that results in situations like this. |
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