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Claudiu
Claudiu

Reputation: 229361

Get the position of the windows start menu

I'm writing an app in Python that automatically moves stuff around. How do I get the position of the windows start menu bar, so I can account for it in my calculations?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 509

Answers (3)

John Knoeller
John Knoeller

Reputation: 34148

When you ask for the work area, the taskbar area is automatically excluded. 

System.Parameters.WorkArea

or Use interop to 

SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA, ...)`

and you are done.

Upvotes: 1

i_am_jorf
i_am_jorf

Reputation: 54600

To get the rectangle use SHAppBarMessage(). You would do the following in C++:

APPBARDATA abd = {0};
SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETTASKBARPOS, &abd);

And then abd.rc would contain the rectangle. You just have to do the pywin32 equivilent.

Please note that GetMonitorInfo() will give you the working area, which is desktop - appbars, but the Task Bar is not the only appbar that might exist.

Upvotes: 0

Claudiu
Claudiu

Reputation: 229361

Ah, found it. GetMonitorInfo: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd144901(VS.85).aspx . Here is an example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162826(VS.85).aspx .

Upvotes: 0

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