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Re: "free" screen size [message #51453 is a reply to message #51452]

Sun, 26 November 2006 00:54

Andrew Cool
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Registered: January 1996

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lory wrote:
> 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

Lory,

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.

Cheers,

Andrew Cool

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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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