I need to resize a window larger than screen resolution or size of desktop, programmatically & preferably also manually.
Since MS-Windows XP/Vista disallows a window size larger than screen, does anybody have any ideas to work around this limitation?
I trying to make pan effect on a laptop to give me more space to work. An older laptop with a smaller LCD size did have such a feature.
See this: http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Windows/98/Q_21832063.html
For the specific case of needing a more screen-friendly view of the MSDN, or on any other site (like StackOverflow) that makes poor use of screen real estate, I would suggest applying a custom stylesheet to the page, using a tool like IE7Pro (IE), Greasemonkey (Firefox), Stylish (Fireox), or the built in stylesheet picker in Opera.
ok, I did try use keystrokes to move, resize windows. But system will automatically move windows back to visible region of desktop in my XP. I also tried SetWindowPos API, and no helps. The best chance will be to write a Video driver, but it may need more study. The 360 desktop claims you can expand desktop horizontally. But actually it just pan the current desktop in a virtual wider space. Any windows inside still have the size limitation of no larger than your screen resolution.
Video driver set the screen resolution(yes, have to compatibile to lcd/crt screen capability), and Windows did limit window-size by this thresholds. I just want to work around in user space API.
If you have a video card with the possibility to connect more than one screen, another workaround is to setup your system as if it is using two screens next to eachother. Then you can resize your windows to the size of the two screens together.
The window size seems to be dependent on Desktop size, not screen resolution; however the Desktop conforms to resolution. The trick might be to change the Desktop size or start from there.
A while back, a developer named Robert Bresner (his website) made a product called sDesk (downloadable from here) which expanded Windows beyond the screen resolution.
What is SDesk? SDesk is not a multi-desktop program. It is a program that creates a single, giant desktop that extends beyond the visible region of the monitor. Only a portion of the SDesk is visible at a time, as defined by the Windows desktop settings.
The original homepage of the SDesk software is archived here There's no current page on the Internet (that I could find) but this archived version is accessed through the Way Back Machine which caches a lot of the Internet.
The SDesk product is freeware. No source code was included though. You might visit his contact page (also available in the archived version) to ask if the source is available or can be acquired for your research.