From: Arndt Roger Schneider <arndt.roger@...>
Date: 2010-02-03T22:35:55+09:00
Subject: Re: TK: Get the "usable" screensize"?

Axel schrieb:

>Hi,
>
>how can I get the "usable" screensize in Ruby/TK?
>I mean, the total screensize minus taskbar (on Windows).
>
>I tried:
>
>  require 'tk'
>  root = TkRoot.new
>  root.state('zoomed')
>  Tk.update
>  p TkWinfo.x(root)
>  p TkWinfo.y(root)
>  p TkWinfo.width(root)
>  p TkWinfo.height(root)
>  p TkWinfo.geometry(root)
>
>but this gives me only
>  total_screensize - (taskbar + window_decoration)
>
>window_decoration is titlebar and borders of a window, maybe
>even something else.
>
>I found  http://wiki.tcl.tk/11291  which points into the
>same direction, but I cannot use it with success (it's TCL).
>
>I'm using:
>* Windows XP
>* ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i386-mingw32]
>* TCL/TK 8.5
>
>Thank you,
>Axel
>  
>

MessageID:<4af30c88$0$83250$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>
in comp.lang.tcl 11/06/2009

Tcl:
winfo screenheight .
winfo screenwidth .
wm maxsize .

the difference should be the raw window dimensions
minus titlebar, decoration, menubar (OSX), dock (OSX) and taskbar.

The mentioned thread was about X11
-roger