Set Focus to Command Prompt Window When Expanded

[kpassaur]

When I try to use Setfocus to change to the screen that has a Full Screen Command Prompt Screen - I know that sounded funny, but with the command prompt you have the option of running in a full screen mode.) it dosen't work. It will work however if it is in a Command Prompt window.

I want to know if there is a way to change to this screen, also, is there a way to detect if the screen is in a full screen or window mode.

Any thoughts?

[Bob Hansen]

Have you considered Maximizing the Command window vs. going into Full Screen mode?

[kpassaur]

That would not always be an option, my goal is to capture a screen in the full screen mode so that I can parse the data. If I could set focus to the full screen mode I could use the ALT Enter key to change to the standard window, copy the text to the clipboard for later processing and then use the key combo to change back.

[Bob Hansen]

So you may need to use redirection to sent the contents of the window to a file. Something like this:

Run Program>cmd /c Dir C:\Windows\*.* > windir.txt

Then read windir.txt and parse the contents of thet file.

[Me_again]

Run Program>cmd /c Dir C:\Windows\*.* > windir.txt

It won't work that way, I think the second ">" confuses MS, see this thread http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtop ... hlight=cmd

[support]

The second > will not cause a problem. We routinely redirect command output to a file using this method and have never had a problem. In parsing the script line Macro Scheduler looks only at the text before the first > symbol so there are no problems including subsequent > symbols and indeed many other commands use them (greater than in If commands for example).

The problem in the thread you linked to was because the poster had incorrectly inserted a space between / and c for the /c switch.

[Bob Hansen]

I use variations of the redirection sample I provided, every day.

No problem with the second > symbol. Frequently use >> to append to a file.