Method to tell PDCurses to make the window the same size as the physical screen programatically?

Question

Currently I have an c++ console application running on Win7/AIX/Linux. In the application I use getmaxyx to get the dimensions of the window.

getmaxyx(_window, _rows, _cols);

On the windows platform i need to play around with the (properties)(layout) options of the running app, to get the screen maximized. That is a bit of a pain.

Thumbing through the documention yields nothing of value.

lines:  Specifies the number of lines the "screen" will have.
               Directly equates to LINES.
               There is no theoretical maximum.
               The minimum value must be 2.
               Default: 24
cols:   Specifies the number of columns the "screen" will have.
               Directly equates to COLS.
               There is no theoretical maximum.
               The minimum value must be 2.
               Default: 80

Is there any technique that I can use to cause the window to be resized to the physical size of the screen? Is there a portable way using PDCurses, and curses? If not, are there any platform specific ways to implement this behavior?

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Here perl does it with signals

Answer 1

        /* Resize the terminal to something larger than the physical screen */
        resize_term(2000, 2000);

        /* Get the largest physical screen dimensions */
        getmaxyx(_window, _rows, _cols);

        /* Resize so it fits */
        resize_term(_rows - 1, _cols - 1);

        /* Get the screen dimensions that fit */
        getmaxyx(_window, _rows, _cols);