Getting Taskbar/Dock height and position on screen?

[Trevor DeVore]

I'm looking for ways to get the Dock/Taskbar height and position on the  
screen.  I need them so I can set an app window to the full screen  
without covering these two items up.

It seems that there should be an entry in the Windows Registry for the  
taskbar height and position on the screen.  I have poked around in the  
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer are but found  
nothing.  Searches on google haven't turned up anything either.

As for the Dock, I found the .plist that stores info on it at:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ 
DockMenus.plist but didn't see anything which stated what it's current  
settings were.

Thanks,

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com