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Re: "free" screen size [message #51448]

Sun, 26 November 2006 14:08

Andrew Cool
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Registered: January 1996

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David Fanning wrote:
> Andrew Cool writes:
>
>> If you're talking MS Windows, then I can let you have a small
>> executable that I knocked up
>> in another language that returns this info.
>>
>> Using the executable in IDL, it's as easy as :-
>>
>> size = window_size()
>>
>>
>> Let me know if you want a copy.
>
> Alright, it's the Cool Special Kludge, written
> after a long day filled with too many prawns on the barbie
> (not to mention too many beers!), but I have to admit
> it *does* work. :-)
>
> And--a very nice feature for something this elegant--it
> *also* keeps track of whether the user is auto-hiding the
> task bar or not.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> P.S. I hope you are passing the secret to this along to the
> good folks at ITTVIS, Andrew. They could use something like this.
> Hold out for the big bucks, though. Or, at the very lease, their
> babe magnet of a T-Shirt. :-)

Apart from the fact that Dick has pointed out that this window info is
already in 6.3,
I'll pass on the babe magnet T-Shirt - I've already got 3 babes living
under my roof,
4 if you include Lucy the Whippet, and I get out-voted enough as it is.

Andrew

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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
		Re: "free" screen size By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 29 November 2006 11:16

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