a6 always has been a bit limited when it comes to windowed mode.

for example i often would have liked minimize and maximize buttons and that the video resolution automatically adapts if the window gets resized.

is it possible to add such things to the engine window with lite-c in pure mode?

would it also be possible to add a menu bar?

Sure, why not? Just do it.

can you give some hints or a link to a website where the needed win32 stuff is explained a bit?

Good question. I do not know such a website at the moment, but maybe I'll find one. Generally, the best source for the Win32 API is the help file of VC++, but there are also many books about Win32. For adding a menu you can just look over the legacy mode examples, like mandelbrot.c

i looked around a bit and found some examples of how to create a window with minimize and maximize buttons and how window events get processed.

but with lite-c in pure mode the window is already there. i didn't find anything yet about modifying existing window.

I have a widescreen monitor and don't like what it does when fullscreen, so I am using this to keep a good ratio no matter what the screen size:
Code:

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var desktop_size[2];
function main
{
	desktop_size.x = sys_metrics(0); // SM_CXSCREEN
	desktop_size.y = sys_metrics(1); 
	// place the window at position (500,300) and remove the border
	video_window(vector(500,300,0),nullvector,112,"Render");
	// But a small engine window at this position (to fake the eninge into another applictaion)
	video_set(desktop_size.x-6, desktop_size.y-63, 32, 0);
	level_load("level.wmb");
}

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that 500,300 doesn't matter. I have it setup to have a regular window with a minimize and close button. I trim down the x by 6 for window borders and the y by 63 for the taskbar.
I really would like to make it sizeable, have a working maximize button, and have the standard file, edit, help style menu. If nothing else, that part can be faked, but I would also want a standard windows "file open" dialog box.

I'll take a look if the other suggestions would work, but I wanted to let you know one possibilty on the window.

Did you figure out more about this? (how to modify the engine window in Lite-C pure mode) All I really want is a maximize button, but it may be useful in the future for me to also add menu buttons.

Also, when stretching the window, I'd like to adjust the resolution to match the size of the window, so that aspect ratios stay the same and everything looks nice. In order to do this, I need to know what size the engine window actually is. (screen_size is the resolution but not the actual size of the window ,ie, if you stretch the engine window, screen_size will not change.) Any ideas on this?

Hi !

Look at sys_metrics in the manual.
It may be what your looking for.
I've seen it but have not used it up to now.

Ottawa

sys_metrics is for system properties like how big the desktop is, what size default icons and borders are, but it won't give the current window size.

The engine window (when using video_window type 48 or 112) has a maximize button and a menu option maximize but they are grayed out. My main question is how I access these window properties in Lite-C pure-mode to add maximize functionality, and then also stretch functionality

I have added a Menu Bar to the engine Window. But the problem is, that I cant setup events for the menu items. Is there a way to overwrite the Wndproc function of the enginewindow. If you create an own messageloop it blocks the window and no frames a rendered. In C++ I am able to create all this nice win32 API stuff, but I don't understand how to set it up into the native enginewindow.
If I render the eingine into another window, only the first frame is visible.