Detecting height of dock and taskbar

[Ken Ray]

On 9/29/05 5:13 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Chipp Walters wrote:
>> Nope, sorry Richard, it can't be obtained correctly from the registry. I
>> know, I've tried. There's a specific API call for it. See:
>> <http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2003-December/027437.html >
> 
> That post contains something I don't understand:
> 
> ------------------
> I've searched and found Ken Ray's:
> 
> function TitleBarHeight
>    get queryRegistry("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
> Panel\desktop\WindowMetrics\CaptionHeight")
>    if it is not empty and isNumber(it) then
>      put round(it / -15) into tHeight
>      return tHeight
>    end if
> end TitleBarHeight
> 
> but, sadly, this isn't reliable. It doesn't take into account double row
> taskbars or unlocked taskbars, etc..
> ------------------
> 
> Why would taskbar variances affect window title bar height?

It wouldn't AFAIK. The only way to get to it is through the FindWindow() API
call to "Shell_traywnd" to get a handle to the window, and then execute the
GetWindowRect API call to get its rect, then calculate it from there.


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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Email: kray at sonsothunder.com