Maximize and/or Coordinates error with large text font.

Test program

Larry,

This is not an ooRexx bug.

The coordinates() method simply calls the underlying GetWindowRect() Windows API and returns what GetWindowRect() returns. If there is a bug, it is a Windows bug in GetWindowRect()

I ran your sample on the system I'm currently using and the results look right to me.

Getting the window rectangle of a maximized window is not the best way to try and determine the current screen size.

Why don't you use:

/ MyScreenSize /
s = screenSize()
say 'My screen size is:' s[3] 'pixels by' s[4] 'pixels.'

::requires 'oodWin32.cls'

Which produces on my system:

C:\work.ooRexx\bugs\screen.size>MyScreenSize.rex
My screen size is: 1280 pixels by 1024 pixels.

C:\work.ooRexx\bugs\screen.size>

And is exactly correct.

Larry,

I suspect you are trying to determine the work area of the screen, which is the area of the screen minus the task bar, sidebar, and application desktop toolbars.

Windows provides an API to query that directly, but we don't expose that API in any of the Windows extensions.

You could open up a RFE and ask to expose the Windows SystemParametersInfo() API. In ooDialog I've exposed the GetSystemMetrics() API, which is useful. SystemParametersInfo() could be useful to many people.

Here is another way to get the size of a maximized window. But, again, this merely returns what the OS says.

/ MyScreenSize /
s = screenSize()
say 'My screen size is:' s[3] 'pixels by' s[4] 'pixels.'

SM_CXMAXIMIZED = 61
SM_CYMAXIMIZED = 62

winX = .DlgUtil~getSystemMetrics(SM_CXMAXIMIZED)
winY = .DlgUtil~getSystemMetrics(SM_CYMAXIMIZED)

say 'Maxizmized window size is:' winX 'pixels by' winY 'pixels.'

::requires 'oodWin32.cls'

Remember, a maximized window is going to be postitioned partially off the screen, so the size is going to be slightly larger than the actual screen area.

On Vista you have that sidebar thing, that may be what is giving you funny results.

Closing this. The values, right or wrong, come directly from the operating system. ooRexx simply reports them.