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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: Mouse handling again :-)
From:       "Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry () sloboda ! ru>
Date:       1999-09-30 3:46:33
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>> By looking at the code, I found that :
>>     sysMetrics[SM_CYFULLSCREEN] =
>> sysMetrics[SM_CYSCREEN] - sysMetrics[SM_CYCAPTION];
>> 
>> Is this correct ? (I do not know a thing about Window's USER).
>
>No, actually this is incorrect ;-)  On Win95, the SM_CYFULLSCREEN
>parameter is *reduced* by the Task Bar height.  So, if the program
>tries to compensate for that by adding the Task Bar height again
>(as there presumably is no task bar in DirectDraw mode?), it will
>get a too large total height :-/
>
>The problem is that the task bar height is a little complex to 
>calculate, as it depends on various parameters:  some time ago


As the additional complexity there is possibility to have _vertical_
TaskBar in Win95/NT. This rather makes things more inadequate.

Dmitry Timoshkov.




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