Resize desktop in c#.net?
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Thought this would be a good place to ask:
I'm writing an rss ticker in c#.net, and want to know how I can resize
the desktop area that's "usable" by other windows. For example, if you
autohide the start-bar, then the usable desktop area expands, and
maximsed windows take up the space where the task bar already was. Is
there a way of altering this so that I can put a thin window that's
docked to some part of the screen, and no window will maximize over
this?
Thanks :)
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To keep other windows from maximizing over your window, take your
parent form and set the AlwaysOnTop property to true. As far as forcing
other windows to conform to some size constraint that you specify, I
don't think it's possible short of changing the resolution of the
desktop, but that's not really what you want, is it?
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@growse said:
Thought this would be a good place to ask:
I'm writing an rss ticker in c#.net, and want to know how I can resize
the desktop area that's "usable" by other windows. For example, if you
autohide the start-bar, then the usable desktop area expands, and
maximsed windows take up the space where the task bar already was. Is
there a way of altering this so that I can put a thin window that's
docked to some part of the screen, and no window will maximize over
this?
Thanks :)
You need to revert to the Win32 API function SHAppBarMessage (this is
how the task bar works). Also, for using the Win32 API from C#, see the
.NET docs on PInvoke().
Ken