I spend a lot of time working in a DOS box (Windows Command Prompt) and I like a lot of real estate. What I don't like is that when I start working on a new system, I have to figure out the maximum number of lines I can fit on the screen and the maximum number of characters I can fit on a line and then size the DOS box to fill the screen.
Finally, I have taken the time to look into the
System.Console class to see what it offers and by golly, it has just the tools I require, so I wrote the following method:
public static bool
TryFillScreen
(
int HeightAdjustment
,
int WidthAdjustment
)
{
bool result = true ;
try
{
System.Console.BufferHeight = System.Int16.MaxValue - 1 ;
System.Console.WindowHeight =
System.Console.LargestWindowHeight + HeightAdjustment ;
System.Console.WindowWidth = System.Console.BufferWidth =
System.Console.LargestWindowWidth + WidthAdjustment ;
}
catch
{
result = false ;
}
return ( result ) ;
}
The
HeightAdjustment and
WidthAdjustment parameters are to adjust the height and width if the system doesn't guess quite right; I have found that the
LargestWindowWidth property doesn't take the scroolbar into account, so I have to adjust the width by
-4.
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