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Fred vS

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Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« on: July 12, 2010, 02:23:59 pm »
Hello Lazarus fans.
Is it possible to know the size of the screen available without the taskbars ?
In Windows and in Linux there are taskbars (1 in bottom for Windows and 2 for Ubuntu).
I need to know the size of the screen without that taskbar(s).
Is it possible to know with Lazarus how many taskbars are installed and the height of those taskbars ?
Thanks
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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010, 02:41:50 pm »
1 in bottom for Windows...

Never assume it's at the bottom!
There even is a bug in Lazarus that's related to this.
I always have the taskbar at the left. It's much easier to access all opened programs and the shortcuts in the quickstart menu.
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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2010, 02:47:36 pm »
Doesn't Screen.Width and screen.Height give the right information on Linux and Mac?

It gives me the full screen resolution on Windows(1680x1050)

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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2010, 02:47:30 pm »
Few months old topic, however it didn't come clear how desktop size works, or if its even possible to do these any convinient way.

My program uses this code to adjust window properly on my screen. I know it won't work for others.
What the code does is making window that is exactly from top edge to bottom - HeightOfTaskBar. On widescreen monitor i don't want to use wsMaximized, it would look stupid.
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  height:=screen.Height-95;
  width:=height*4 div 3;
  top:=0; left:=(screen.Width-Width) div 2;

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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2010, 04:24:51 pm »
or if its even possible to do these any convinient way.

I'd say no, not in a convenient way. On Linux, it depends on the Window Manager you are using.
Not even sure if X11 itself knows which window is the taskbar, probably using
"_NET_WORKAREA"

« Last Edit: October 07, 2010, 05:48:12 pm by theo »

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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2010, 04:51:33 pm »
On Windows:

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var
  h :THandle;
  r  :TRect;
begin
  h := FindWindow('Shell_traywnd', '');
  GetWindowRect(h, r);
end;                   

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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2010, 06:37:23 pm »
In Windows
SPI_GETWORKAREA with SystemParametersInfo.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947

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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2011, 10:56:20 am »
On Windows:

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var
  h :THandle;
  r  :TRect;
begin
  h := FindWindow('Shell_traywnd', '');
  GetWindowRect(h, r);
end;                   

It works fine on Windows XP, but on Windows 7 it returns height = 40 (r.Bottom - r.Top).
I don't know which is the real height, but it's more than on Windows XP that have height = 60.

It's a bug?

Thanks, Mario

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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2011, 12:29:22 pm »
On Windows:

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var
  h :THandle;
  r  :TRect;
begin
  h := FindWindow('Shell_traywnd', '');
  GetWindowRect(h, r);
end;                  

It works fine on Windows XP, but on Windows 7 it returns height = 40 (r.Bottom - r.Top).
I don't know which is the real height, but it's more than on Windows XP that have height = 60.

It's a bug?

Thanks, Mario

I don't know for XP but on W7 the taskbar with 'small icons' is height 30px, with normal icons 40px

from first google result

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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2017, 10:06:47 pm »
I think it's going to work:

Form1.Left:=Screen.WorkAreaLeft-4;
Form1.Top:=Screen.WorkAreaTop;
Form1.Width:=Screen.Width;
Form1.Height:=Screen.WorkAreaHeight-GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYCAPTION);


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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2019, 10:16:50 pm »
Very very old topic - but just for future reference:

Got the answer doing this way:

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  1. procedure TfrmMenu.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
  2. begin
  3.   Left := 0;
  4.   Top := 0;
  5.   Height := screen.WorkAreaHeight;
  6.   Width := Screen.WorkAreaWidth;
  7. end;

Working fine using Win7 - tested with vertical and horizontal task bar (will test Win10 later)
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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2019, 11:03:36 pm »
Note that SPI_GETWORKAREA/Screen.WorkArea... are for the primary monitor only.  On a multi-monitor system, each monitor has its own work area, and may or may not be displaying the taskbar.  So you have to query each monitor individually.
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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2019, 12:26:51 am »
Very very old topic - but just for future reference:
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Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]
  1. procedure TfrmMenu.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
  2. begin
  3.   Left := 0;
  4.   Top := 0;
  5.   Height := screen.WorkAreaHeight;
  6.   Width := Screen.WorkAreaWidth;
  7. end;

Working fine using Win7 - tested with vertical and horizontal task bar (will test Win10 later)

For completeness sake, Screen.WorkArea rarely works in Linux. One has to use {Form.}Monitor.WorkareaRect; for example:
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  1. {Adjust form to monitor vertical space }
  2. procedure TMyForm.AdjustHeight(Breath: Integer = 0);
  3. var
  4.   MaxRect: TRect;
  5.   NewTop, NewHeight: Integer;
  6. begin
  7.   MaxRect := Monitor.WorkareaRect; {< This is the form's monitor}
  8.   NewHeight := MaxRect.Height;
  9.   if Breath > 0 then begin
  10.     NewHeight := NewHeight - Breath;
  11.     NewTop := MaxRect.Top + (MaxRect.Height - NewHeight) div 2;
  12.   end else
  13.     NewTop := MaxRect.Top;
  14.   SetBounds(Left, NewTop, Width, NewHeight);
  15. end;
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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2022, 10:10:33 pm »
Very very old topic - but just for future reference:

Got the answer doing this way:

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]
  1. procedure TfrmMenu.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
  2. begin
  3.   Left := 0;
  4.   Top := 0;
  5.   Height := screen.WorkAreaHeight;
  6.   Width := Screen.WorkAreaWidth;
  7. end;

Working fine using Win7 - tested with vertical and horizontal task bar (will test Win10 later)

This doesn't work for me. The window height is too large and a bit too wide. I'm on Win 8.1pro using Lazarus 2.2.0

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Re: Size of screen available without taskbar ?
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2022, 08:03:02 am »
Never assume the taskbar is at the bottom.

 

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