Re: Reducing screen size in Win7?
- Posted by AndyDrummond May 06, 2011
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Arthur, thanks. But I can get the screen client area OK; what I am trying to do is tell the Windows Explorer - effectively the OS - that it's client area is reduced by the size I am using for my toolbar. I fear that then I might not be able to put MY program there either in that case, as it will have to be in the explorer client area. Probably I am looking for an impossibility.
But I may not need this. There was a thread a while back about having a toolbar move out the way normally and coming back when the mouse was moved to the screen edge. It is a workaround but probably a good one; at least it doesn't need any fudges or any clever way to tell another program (Explorer) that it hasn't got all the screen for itself. It seems to work; the Oracle VirtualBox program has a toolbar which drops to leave just a line on the screen bottom. Mousing over that makes the toolbar pop up, so I think I will go thataway.
I'm on another problem now - I want to have a program running onscreen - the toolbar - but without an entry on the task bar at the bottom. I have a feeling that to do that I need to be running as a service, and that opens up a whole new bag of worms. I wonder (if I admit defeat) if there is a program out there which does what I'm after. A see any number of people moaning that you can't drag a folder to make it into a toolbar any more, so I would expect someone with a lot more nous than me to write a program - or even Microshaft might make it possible again. You never know ....
So let's call this thread done, guys, but thanks anyway.
