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I've been searching far and wide for a way to get the title bar size of any active window. What I'm trying to accomplish is moving the mouse to the top left corner of the window (so as to find true window position, relative to screen origin), the corner position where the window borders meet. I'm able to do this for some windows, but other windows do not have the title bar within the client area. So I have to find the title bar size in order to position the mouse where I want it. I've seen suggestions to use _WinAPI_GetSystemMetrics() but it returns a constant, and some windows have a different size title bar than what is returned. Here is a script to work with that outputs to the console what is happening: #include <WinAPISysWin.au3> HotKeySet( "{ESC}", "abort") HotKeySet( "{PAUSE}", "_GetWindowCorner") While 1 Sleep( 1000) WEnd Func _GetWindowCorner() Local $aAbsWinPos[2] Local $aDiff[2] ;~ Preserve mouse position. $aMousePos = MouseGetPos() ;~ Get the coordinate of the window. ConsoleWrite( "Window title: " & WinGetTitle( "[ACTIVE]") & @CRLF) $aWinPos = WinGetPos( "[ACTIVE]") ; Get position of active window. ConsoleWrite( "$aWinPos[0]: " & $aWinPos[0] & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite( "$aWinPos[1]: " & $aWinPos[1] & @CRLF) ;~ Record the absolute position of the window. AutoItSetOption( "MouseCoordMode", 2) ; Make mouse coordinate relative to active window client area origin. MouseMove( 0, 0, 0) ; Move mouse to client area origin. Sleep ( 3000) ; Pause to show where the mouse is for troubleshooting. AutoItSetOption( "MouseCoordMode", 1) ; Make mouse positioning relative to screen origin again. $aAbsWinPos = MouseGetPos() ; Record client area origin relative to screen origin. ;~ Get the difference between window client origin and screen origin. ConsoleWrite( "$aAbsWinPos[0]: " & $aAbsWinPos[0] & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite( "$aAbsWinPos[1]: " & $aAbsWinPos[1] & @CRLF) $aDiff[0] = $aWinPos[0] - $aAbsWinPos[0] $aDiff[1] = $aWinPos[1] - $aAbsWinPos[1] ConsoleWrite( "Difference X: " & $aDiff[0] & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite( "Difference Y: " & $aDiff[1] & @CRLF) If Abs($aDiff[0]) > 0 Then $aAbsWinPos[0] -= 1 ; Account for x axis difference, if any. Any difference will be 1, therefore subtract 1. ;If Abs($aDiff[1]) > 0 Then $aAbsWinPos[1] -= _TitleBarSize() ; Account for y axis difference, if any. Difference will be variable, therefore subtract variable. ConsoleWrite( "True Win X: " & $aAbsWinPos[0] & @CRLF) ConsoleWrite( "True Win Y: " & $aAbsWinPos[1] & @CRLF & @CRLF) ;~ Restore mouse position. MouseMove( $aMousePos[0], $aMousePos[1], 0) EndFunc ;===> _GetWindowCorner Func abort() Exit EndFunc ;===> abort As you can see, on line 36, the code is commented out. That is the code that I need to complete, accounting for the title bar size. I can't use it unless I find a way to get the variable title bar size, which is different per window. A good example to see that difference would be to use the window of the autoit script itself, and a notepad window. The notepad's title bar is included in the client area, whereas the Autoit window's title bar is excluded. Func _TitleBarSize() ;~ Code to get variable title bar size... help :c Return $Size EndFunc ;===> _TitleBarSize I need some help making a function to get the title bar size, I appreciate any help or guidance I can get here, I've been at it for a while now :c It helps me to have the window at screen position (0, 0), the code works on notepad because it accounts for the x axis difference as it is always only 1 coordinate point off (I may be wrong). But when it comes to a window like WinRAR or AutoIT, the title bar changes things, and is not always a set value. An example of this discrepancy can be demonstrated by the code when toggled on an AutoIT script, and on the AutoIT compiler program. The compiler has a smaller title bar, excluded from the client area. Thanks in advance!

Hello Guys, I want to create a simple gui, but with a bigger title bar ( e.g. 2x bigger) Is that possible in any way? I searched the forum but I found nothing. Hope you understand what I mean. Nothing special with the gui, only the size of the title bar should change. Any ideas? Thanks in Advance