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Re: GET_SCREEN_SIZE in Windows [message #26285]

Sun, 19 August 2001 11:29

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

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Justin wrote:
>
> Has anyone got any cunning ideas of how to find the screen size in Windows
> WITHOUT including the task bar (the "start bar").
>
> The simplest way would be to subtract n pixels from the height, however the
> task bar can be moved to the side (as it is by some of our users...)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Justin

You don't mean device,get_screen_size=variable ?

Reimar

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Re: GET_SCREEN_SIZE in Windows [message #26361 is a reply to message #26285]

Tue, 21 August 2001 08:25

ngls
Messages: 10
Registered: November 2000

Junior Member

r.bauer@fz-juelich.de (Reimar Bauer) wrote in <3B80059B.CE3B206A@fz-
juelich.de>:

> You don't mean device,get_screen_size=variable ?

Sadly no. This gives the same result as:

IDL> print, get_screen_size()
% Compiled module: GET_SCREEN_SIZE.
1280.00 1024.00

Where 1280 by 1024 is the total size of the desktop. If I create a widget
this size, part of the widget is obscured under the Windows task bar. I would
like to size the widget so that it fills all of the available space (i.e.
desktop size less task-bar). This is the size that a maximized window would
fill.

For me, with the task-bar at the bottom of the screen, I would want the
routine to return 1280 by 1000 since the task-bar takes up 24 pixels
vertically. However the task-bar can live up the side of the screen.

Justin

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