Questions tagged [getsystemmetrics]
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GetSystemMetrics() returns different results for .NET 4.5 & .NET 4.0
During a .NET 4.0 -> .NET 4.5 application migration process I've discovered an extremely strange behavior. I've been able to track this issue down to this short code snippet:
class Program
{
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Get drop shadow dimensions of window
I need to know the drop shadow dimensions of a window. I tried receiving values via the GetSystemMetrics WinAPI function, but I could not find the parameter to pass over.
Any idea on how I can get this value globally (or for a single window handle)?…
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GetSystemMetrics and TScreen returns wrong value
I am using Delphi XE5. I think i have a problem with my laptop. After a while, it returns wrong value to Screen.Width and GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN) (same for Height). My OS is Windows 7 64-bit.
My laptop's screen res is 1920x1080 (1080p) however…
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find size of external monitor in excel vba
To find the size of the monitor, I've been using:
Declare Function GetSystemMetrics32 Lib "user32" Alias "GetSystemMetrics" (ByVal Index As Long) As Long
and then:
Function getMonitorSize()
monitorHeight = GetSystemMetrics32(1)
monitorWidth =…
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How to resolve linking error for GetSystemMetrics()?
I'm attempting to use the following to get the height & width of the main display:
#include
size_t width = (size_t)GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXBORDER);
size_t height = (size_t)GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYBORDER);
However, it's failing on an…
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Is there a system metric for listview text padding?
In Explorer, when viewing items in details view, there's a little bit of left padding before the text in any given column. I was wondering if there's a way to obtain that padding value. I was checking out GetSystemMetrics, but I'm not sure if any…
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How to get the real height of title bar with c++
Actually I find there is a same demand post here. But I find some problem still, so I have to post another question here.
If I use snipaste to capture the toolbar. I can know the real title bar is 28 like this
But if I use the method in that post…
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How to notify Windows about changes in Desktop settings?
How to notify Windows system that some appearance settings has been changed by my program?
I'm working with:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop -> FontSmoothing + FontSmoothingType
What is a standard way? Maybe there is some message. Where…
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GetSystemMetrics vs. SystemParametersInfo
I needed to find out the height of the screen in order to resize a dialog. I am calling GetSystemMetrics with SM_CYFULLSCREEN and I am getting a certain number (1028 in my case). Per MSDN:
To get the coordinates of the portion of the screen not…
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How do I prevent GetSystemMetrics() in Python using a Windows PC from returning different/wrong values?
I'm using this bit of code to get a print out of the monitor resolution from a Surface Pro 1st Gen Win 8.1 PC using Python 2.7:
import ctypes
from ctypes import windll
user32 = ctypes.windll.user32
screensize =…
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Getting Desktop Resolution in MFC C++
I have inherited some partially developed 10 year old code that was written in MFC C++. I've been tasked with updating and finishing the app.
In the CDialogChild class, it looks like this in the .h file:
private:
static const int…
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calculating minimum size needed to contain dialog
I want to compute the minimum size both vertical and horizontal that will contain a dialog.
I used GetClientRect to determine the width and height. Then for the width when a vertical scroll bar is needed I added GetSystemMetrics (SM_CXVSCROLL) +…
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Tkinter The buttons gets misplaced in a pc with a higher resolution
I made a tkinter application in my pc which has 1366 x 768 resolution then converted to exe and sent to another pc with 1920 x 1080 resolution. There, buttons were misplaced, got inside the labelframe - image in the center while i made an effort to…
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Obtaining the height of Explorer's items view header
I was wondering if there's a system metric for the height of Explorer's items view header, or if there's a simple way of obtaining that value.
My current approach is to obtain the header's IUIAutomationElement. Then I get the element's bounding…
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SystemParametersInfoA with SPI_GETMOUSE returns 0's
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I'm trying to get my mouse speed, but when I call the function SystemParametersInfoA with parameter SPI_GETMOUSE it sets the target array to {0,0,0} which I think its not supposed to happen.
Example code:
int…
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