Detecting height of dock and taskbar

[Richard Gaskin]

Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>>>Check out the windowBoundingRect. It gives you the usable rectangle
>>>allowing for the dock or taskbar. However with Macs, it does not allow
>>>for the menu bar, so you may need increase the 2nd item to stop your
>>>windows disappearing under the menu bar.
>>
>>Maybe that was an old bug that's been fixed?  I just ran "put the
>>windowBoundingRect" in MC on my 15" PB and got "0,22,1234,854", which
>>accomodates 22 pixels for the menu bar.
>> 
> I think it has only been partially fixed :-(
> In a Rev stack, the menu bar takes up 22 pixels (or is it 26), but if
> you move a window right to the top of the screen and check it's top,
> it will be 44, so the 22 reported in the windowBoundingRect is
> insufficient.

D'oh!  Of course, to accomodate the window's drag region.

Fortunately on Mac it's a fixed size, and on Win can be obtained from 
the registry.

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