On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:15:40 +0200
"Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21/10/2007, Thomas Moritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Imho, Delphi set the FormSize to DesktopArea.
> > ( ScreenSize - Taskbar )
Sounds like maximizing.
> OK, that's clever. Interestingly the Kylix 3 help doesn't mention
> anything of that behavior.
>
> >
> > Form1.Height:=Screen.Height-(Screen.Height div 100*8);
> >
> > It's only good for my own Screen.
>
> That's true! The other thing that many applications do and that
> annoys the crap out of me is that they always assume the taskbar is at
> the top or bottom of the screen.
> For example, I have a wide screen display. To me it makes more sense
> to put the taskbar on the left edge of the screen. It makes it easier
> to see the names of running programs in the taskbar. So many
> applications start up and are partially hidden behind the taskbar (on
> the left of my screen) because they assumed the taskbar is always at
> the bottom edge of the screen!
Exactly.
Let the window manager do the maximization.
Mattias
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