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Re: "free" screen size [message #51449 is a reply to message #51448]

Sun, 26 November 2006 13:47

Andrew Cool
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Registered: January 1996

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Dick Jackson wrote:
> "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
>

Crikey! I pestered RSI/IITVIS to make this info available - but I
didn't know they'd
actually done it!

Way better than my kludge... ;-)

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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