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Title: Opening a Window
Post by: Brian on July 24, 2013, 12:46:52 PM

Erm, I'm sure this has been asked before, but:

I'm opening a program window, and I want it to be the full size of the screen, but not
counting the taskbar at the bottom. I've also got a statusbar.
I've been experimenting with getscreensize, etc, but getting nowhere.
What's the correct procedure to open a program window whatever your screen size is, please?

Brian

Title: Re: Opening a Window
Post by: billhsln on July 24, 2013, 01:46:19 PM

I found this in the forum:

http://www.ionicwind.com/forums/index.php?topic=4954.0

Bill

Title: Re: Opening a Window
Post by: aurelCB on July 24, 2013, 02:25:14 PM

I will try to guess...
resize to @maximize
getwindowsize
setwindowsize-32 vartical
;)

Title: Re: Opening a Window
Post by: LarryMc on July 24, 2013, 06:08:59 PM

The following is the proper way to do it.
It takes into account whether or not the task bar is in auto-hide mode, where the taskbar is located (bottom, left, top, right) and whether or not the taskbar is set for small icons or large icons.

Code Select

AUTODEFINE "OFF"
const SPI_GETWORKAREA = 0x0030
DECLARE IMPORT,SystemParametersInfo ALIAS SystemParametersInfoA(uiAction as UINT,uiParam as UINT,pvParam as POINTER,fWinIni as UINT),INT

winrect srect
int l,t,w,h
window w1

SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA,0,srect,0)

l = srect.left
t = srect.top
w = srect.right-srect.left
h = srect.bottom-srect.top

openwindow w1, l, t, w, h, @CAPTION|@SYSMENU, 0, "Dodge the Taskbar", &mainHandler
WAITUNTIL ISWINDOWCLOSED w1
END

SUB mainHandler(),INT
   SELECT @MESSAGE
		CASE @IDCLOSEWINDOW
			closewindow w1	
	ENDSELECT
	RETURN 0
ENDSUB

Title: Re: Opening a Window
Post by: Brian on July 25, 2013, 01:47:32 AM

That's great, Larry - got some kind of code working already but, of course
you always come up trumps!

Brian

IonicWind Software

IWBasic => General Questions => Topic started by: Brian on July 24, 2013, 12:46:52 PM