Window metrics in Win32

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jan 22 23:45:01 EST 2003


J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 1/22/03 8:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> On Windows, the border and titlebar metrics are completely up to the user.
>> Any attempt at making perfectly-aligned windows without using the
>> appropriate registry settings risks guessing wrong, as the user may not be
>> using the defaults.
> 
> Hm. I would have thought the engine would account for that.

The engine does what it's supposed to do:  when you set the rect of a stack,
it sets the content region of the stack to match. But the window trimmings
are a different matter...

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