Making a Form Full-Screen (Small Tutorial)

[Daniel]

Making a Form Full-Screen
By Dan's The Man

Introduction:
This is a little guide to teach you how to make a SCAR Form Full-Screen. It could be used in your own games (*looks at Solemn Wishes* ), or anything else you might want So let's start.

Method:
Well, first off, you'll need to make a simple form out of the form editor, or any other way you like doing After doing that, save the form and load it via the Load DFM Form option inside SCAR or Rons DFM Form parser. In the section of your form name (usually "frmDesign"), add:

FormName.BorderStyle := bsNone;
  FormName.WindowState := wsMaximized;

While replacing FormName with the variable name of your form That will make it maximized, but without covering the taskbar. To cover your taskbar, You'll need to replace:

FormName.Left := blah;
  FormName.Top := blah;
  FormName.Width := blah;
  FormName.Height := blah;

with

FormName.SetBounds(TR.Left, TR.Top, TR.Right-TR.Left, TR.Bottom-TR.Top);

whilst adding this variable as a local variable:

var
   TR: TRect;

Remember to replace FormName with the variable name of your form. Now just continue on with the normal form development, such as adding loading procedures and stuff (TVariantArrays etc). SetBounds is another way of doing:

FormName.Left := blah1;
  FormName.Top := blah2;
  FormName.Width := blah3;
  FormName.Height := blah4;

So, you'll do this with SetBounds instead (much shorter ):[scar]
FormName.SetBounds(blah1, blah2, blah3, blah4);[scar]
See? Much, MUCH shorter

Ok, that hopefully concludes my tutorial for today. If you require any more help, please reply to this thread

[Hermen]

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[Daniel]

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[Daniel]

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Right Looks back at your post

[WhoCares357]

Is there a tutorial on rendering bitmaps on the screen with SCAR? I'm asking because I wanted to try make a game with SCAR but don't know enough to do it.

[Daniel]

Is there a tutorial on rendering bitmaps on the screen with SCAR? I'm asking because I wanted to try make a game with SCAR but don't know enough to do it.

If i think you mean something that has a transparent background, then i'm not sure, sorry.

[WhoCares357]

If i think you mean something that has a transparent background, then i'm not sure, sorry.

Not necessarily. I just want to draw the bitmap in a window. I'd refresh the screen on user input. I've looked in the SCAR help files and there are a few functions dealing with drawing with bitmaps. Still, I don't know how to complete the whole process. I'll have to experiment quite a bit.

So it would really help if there was a tutorial showing me how to do this. Even a previously made game would be good (the source code, I mean).

[skilld u]

Solemn wishes made a tut in the advanced section on making games, its very good.

[WhoCares357]

Solemn wishes made a tut in the advanced section on making games, its very good.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

[Daniel]

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Glad you found what you were looking for

[Dan Cardin]

hmm. i didnt know that it had to do with the variables being set as other variables. Afew days ago i was playing around with this and it got it to work by just re-arranging my variables.

Also if you make it fullscreen after your init procedure (after clicking a button maybe?) you dont have to muck around with that. just y=type in

FormName.BorderStyle := bsNone;
  FormName.WindowState := wsMaximized;

[Daniel]

hmm. i didnt know that it had to do with the variables being set as other variables. Afew days ago i was playing around with this and it got it to work by just re-arranging my variables.

Also if you make it fullscreen after your init procedure (after clicking a button maybe?) you dont have to muck around with that. just y=type in

FormName.BorderStyle := bsNone;
  FormName.WindowState := wsMaximized;

I mean, when a form starts up and it's full screen

[Dan Cardin]

i know, i was just saying. no need to go all "" on me.

[Daniel]

i know, i was just saying. no need to go all "" on me.

Huh???

[sink998]

Thanks much help!

[Widget]

MoveMouse(-100000,-100000);
GetMousePos(x1, y1);
MoveMouse(100000,100000);
GetMousePos(x2, y2);
Form.SetBounds(0, 0, x2 - x1, y2 - y1);

There's your screen size

Also, you can copy bitmaps to TImages with SafeCopyCanvas with a transparent background but it's complicatedish. Maybe I'll write some form tuts if I ever finish my game for the Form competition

Edit: Partial gravedig. Stupid fixed order

[Daniel]

MoveMouse(-100000,-100000);
GetMousePos(x1, y1);
MoveMouse(100000,100000);
GetMousePos(x2, y2);
Form.SetBounds(0, 0, x2 - x1, y2 - y1);

There's your screen size

Also, you can copy bitmaps to TImages with SafeCopyCanvas with a transparent background but it's complicatedish. Maybe I'll write some form tuts if I ever finish my game for the Form competition

Edit: Partial gravedig. Stupid fixed order

Yay for Widget gravedigging my post

CopyCanvas and SafeCopyCanvas isn't complicated...

[Tootoot222]

you know, you could just do this:

var
  W, H: Integer;
begin
  SetDesktopAsClient;
  GetClientDimensions(W, H);
  Form.SetBounds(0, 0, W, H);
end;

...quite simple really...

[Daniel]

you know, you could just do this:

var
  W, H: Integer;
begin
  SetDesktopAsClient;
  GetClientDimensions(W, H);
  Form.SetBounds(0, 0, W, H);
end;

...quite simple really...

That wouldn't cover the taskbar Also, just using a TRect and SetBounds is faster than that