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Re: "free" screen size [message #51451 is a reply to message #51449]

Sun, 26 November 2006 08:27

Dick Jackson
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Registered: August 1998

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"lory" <lore2323@virgilio.it> wrote in message
news:1164462367.533281.304210@45g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
> How can I find the "free" screen size ? I mean the size of the area
> available to display GUIs, something like the dimensions returned by
> GET_SCREEN_SIZE but subtracting the area dedicated to the task bar, if
> it is displayed.
>
> Lory

In IDL 6.3, multiple monitor support was added, along with an option for
excluding taskbar size on Windows. I wrote this function to get at the
desired info easily:

;; Handy function for getting screen size of primary monitor, optionally
;; excluding the taskbar
;;
;; Example:
;; freeSize = GetPrimaryScreenSize(/Exclude_Taskbar)
;; Print, freeSize
;; 1280 946

FUNCTION GetPrimaryScreenSize, Exclude_Taskbar=exclude_Taskbar

oMonInfo = Obj_New('IDLsysMonitorInfo')
rects = oMonInfo -> GetRectangles(Exclude_Taskbar=exclude_Taskbar)
pmi = oMonInfo -> GetPrimaryMonitorIndex()
Obj_Destroy, oMonInfo
Return, rects[[2, 3], pmi] ; w & h of primary monitor avbl. space

END

Cheers,
-Dick

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Victoria, BC, Canada +1-250-220-6117 dick@d-jackson.com

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		Re: "free" screen size By: Andrew Cool on Sun, 26 November 2006 14:08
		Re: "free" screen size By: Andrew Cool on Sun, 26 November 2006 13:47
		Re: "free" screen size By: Dick Jackson on Sun, 26 November 2006 08:27
		Re: "free" screen size By: David Fanning on Sun, 26 November 2006 06:40
		Re: "free" screen size By: Andrew Cool on Sun, 26 November 2006 00:54
		Re: "free" screen size By: David Fanning on Sat, 25 November 2006 06:13
		Re: "free" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 27 November 2006 15:10
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