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goodking
goodking

Reputation: 145

How to get maximum possible window size when creating window in MFC?

I need to get the maximum possible height and width of a window being created (window is not maximized first). How to do it?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3475

Answers (2)

xMRi
xMRi

Reputation: 15355

You can use GetSystemMetrics with SM_CXSCREEN and SM_CYSCREEN. This is the width and height off your primary display monitor.

Another way would be to determine the desktop workarea size:

CRect rectWorkArea;
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA,0,&rectWorkArea,0);

Or to determine the size of the work area of a specific monitor were your window exists

CRect rectWorkArea;
MONITORINFO mi;
mi.cbSize = sizeof(mi);
::GetMonitorInfo(::MonitorFromWindow(hWnd, MONITOR_DEFAULTTONEAREST), &mi);
rectWorkArea = mi.rcWork;

MONITORINFO also contains the monitor size.

Depends what you need to do.

Upvotes: 2

Himanshu
Himanshu

Reputation: 4395

You can get screen height and width, and pass that value to get maximum possible size of window.
Try this:

int X = GetSystemMetrics( SM_CXSCREEN );
int Y = GetSystemMetrics( SM_CYSCREEN );

Here in X you will get the Width of the screen.
And in Y you will get the Height of the screen.

Upvotes: 2

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