size of window decorations

[Richard Gaskin]

Claus Dreischer wrote:

> thanks for that snippet, but it returns 1 here, which is not like in
> Klaus' table, or i completely misunderstood you.
>
> But you gave me a pointer: I think i can frickel something when i use
> this key too to get the height of the decorations:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop\WindowMetrics\CaptionHeight
>
> At least it changes from -375/15 (XP Style) to -270/15 (Classic Style) ...

Yep, those are the values you should use.  In my haste to paste that 
code I didn't clean out the rest of the irrelevant stuff.

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