The application is about 8 years old and is hard coded to 800x600 so when I press the maximize button it will only go to 800x600 despite the screen resolution being much higher. The company that makes the application is unwilling to change the application to fix this issue. I was wondering if there is any software that's available that would automatically make this application full screen when launched (stretching to whatever the resolution of the display is).
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AmazingTech - I tried that application and found that it won't work because the exe I run to open the program calls another exe in turn. The first exe runs at the desired resolution but then the next exe that gets called automatically runs at the default resolution of 800x600.
If you can hunt down that program that does the resolution based on appliation (or by window would be even better) that would do the trick I think.
Alas, I can't remember the name of the application but even if I did it you would need to purchase it. That's why we didn't go with it.
Do you have vb5 or vb6?
Give this a try.
http://www.freevbcode.com/
I can be converted for other applications.
Qres is a command line utility to show and change your screen resolution:
http://www.softpedia.com/p
From the documentation:
Description:
Command line utility to change screen resolution, color depth and refresh rate...
Command line Examples:
qres.exe /x:640 Changes resolution to 640 x 480.
qres.exe /x 1280 /y 1024 Changes resolution to 1280 x 1024. (If your graphics card supports it)
qres.exe /c:8 Changes color resolution to 256 colors.
qres.exe /c:16 Changes color resolution to high color (16 bit).
qres.exe /c:24 Changes color resolution to true color (24 bit).**
qres.exe /r:0 Changes the refresh rate to Adapter Default.*
qres.exe /r:-1 Changes the refresh rate to Optimal.*
qres.exe /r:80 Changes the refresh rate to 80 Hz.
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What you want to do is create a batch to change the resolution to 800x600, then run the program, and then change the resolution back to optimal:
qres.exe /x 800 /y 600
start /wait someoldapp.exe
pause
qres.exe /x 1024 /y 768 (or whatever)
You'll probably need the pause command because like you said the someoldapp.exe spawns another process and thus finishes.
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by: AmazingTechPosted on 2009-06-30 at 09:44:44ID: 24747105
Here's an application that will change the resolution while the app is running. When the application is exited it changes the resolution back.
http://www.bcheck.net/apps
I have seen an application that will do a different resolution per application. I'll see if I can find it again this was about 5 years ago.