size of window decorations

[Klaus on-rev]

Hi Claus,

> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to determine the size of the window decorations (the
> stuff the OS is painting around my stack)?
> 
> I would like to move my stack into the upper left corner, but without
> the knowledge of the real height of the whole window (stack + window
> decorations), i don't know how much i should add to the height of this
> stack.
> 
> This also depends on the window style (classic 2000, XP, Vista, etc).
> 
> Is there a way?

I found this old text file on my hd, no idea who was the author or
if this still applies today:

##################################################
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.
#################################################

Hope that helps!

> Regards,
> 	Claus.

Best

Klaus

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