Leaving room for the title bar

[Graham Samuel]

Well, I seem to be talking to myself, but this may interest some 
people. Apologies if it's all in the dox somewhere and I've missed it 
(wouldn't be the first time). I have managed to get hold of various 
machines and I think the following figures are correct about the 
amount of space in pixels taken up by the decorations in each case. 
Obviously I don't have a more general solution which will work when 
Microsoft or Apple change something. I have no Unix figures.

The following is best viewed in a monospaced font:

    OS        Platform  SystemVersion  Title Bar LeftSide RightSide Bottom

Windows 95    Win32       4.0            24      4          4        4
Windows 98    Win32       4.10           24      4          4        4
Windows XP    Win32       NT 5.1         30      4          4        4
Mac OS 9      MacOS       9.2.2          22      6          7        6
Mac OS X      MacOS       10.2.6         22      1          1        1

I'm hoping that these figures enable the developer to use the default 
WindowBoundingRect to set a new, more restrictive WindowBoundingRect 
to ensure a stack window just fills the available screen space.

Corrections and comments welcome

Graham

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