Idea - Check Screen Resolution and Window Size at Beginning of Script

[etidd]

So, I had a new idea to create a UDF that checks the current screen resolution and window sizes to ensure that the script will properly execute as tested. Maybe I would put it in a separate .au3 file and include it with most scripts. This is similar to what I am doing by checking if certain processes are running and closing them before executing a script as if a program is currently running, it may cause a problem in execution.

Perhaps this has already been done before as it seems like it may be a sound practice. If a window size is different than when it was tested, it may cause the script to malfunction.

Does anyone do things like this or calculate coordinates by function? Or is this overblown and just better to target everything with precise coordinates?

[rudi]

Hi.

Taken from some other posting in this forum, just a snippet to give you a start:

Func DesktopWorkingAreaHeight()
    Local $dRECT = DllStructCreate("long; long; long; long")
    Local $spiRet = DllCall("User32.dll", "int", "SystemParametersInfo", _
            "uint", 48, "uint", 0, "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($dRECT), "uint", 0)
    If @error Then Return 0
    If $spiRet[0] = 0 Then Return 0
    Local $aRet[4] = [DllStructGetData($dRECT, 1), DllStructGetData($dRECT, 2), DllStructGetData($dRECT, 3), DllStructGetData($dRECT, 4)]
    Local $MaxHeight = $aRet[3] - $aRet[1]
    ; substract height of task bar

    $TitleBarHeight = _WinAPI_GetSystemMetrics($SM_CYCAPTION)
    Return $MaxHeight - $TitleBarHeight - 10
EndFunc   ;==>DesktopWorkingAreaHeight

 

[ioa747]

if the  @DesktopWidth, @DesktopHeight is not enough for you

take a look here
Moves and/or resizes and arrange windows between multi monitors.

Func _MM_GetMonitorsArray()

 

hope it helps 

Edited September 27, 2023 by ioa747
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