User 32 - Workspace Size

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boomboom

Hi, I am using window mode 2 for my current project, and making it the size of the desktop by using the the User32 userlib command:

api_GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN)

which is all fine, works great and returns a nice int of the screen width.

The trouble I am having is with the height, as it returns the total desktop height, not taking into consideration the start bar height (so it gets covered over, which I don't want).

What I am after seems to be the SPI_GETWORKAREA command, which works out the desktop size and automatically takes away any size taken up by the start bar. Unfortunately I don't know how to use this as it seems to return a custom variable that then needs processing to find the width.

I am not really too sure on this, here are some links that someone with more knowledge of such things could decipher:

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/VC/microsoft.public.vc.mfc/2007-08/msg01786.html
http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2000-01/thread00432-0.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q154823/

and, of course, the user32 userlib in the code archives:

http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1179