Desktop Top

i need to know what is the top pixel of the desktop or actually, the work area of the desktop. i.e if i move the start taskbar to the top of the screen and even change it's size, i want to know where is the topest pixel of the work area zone (by area zone i mean the whole area which a window uses if i maximize the window).

Erm... it's '0', isn't it?

Either that was really easy or I completely missed the point...

i guess u missed the point
if i move the start taskbar or any other app to be docked at the top of the screen, i want to know their height.. (all together)

hmmz try the FindWindow API
I don't know exactly how it works.. but I think ya can accomplish what you want with that.

FindWindow will return the Handle of another Window. The first parameter is the type of Class (Pass 0 for any class) and the second parameter is the Window Title.

Code:

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Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32.dll" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As Any, ByVal lpWindowName As Any) As Long

Private Sub Command1_Click()

    'Get the Handle of MyWindowTitle
    GetHandle = FindWindow(CLng(0), "MyWindowTitle")

End Sub

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I guess it's easy just to maximaze your window and store the values but otherways you could find out the position of the startmenu, well actually i haven't done it myself, never needed but i found out you can do it when i was making my own appbar:

Code:

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Public Const ABM_GETTASKBARPOS = &H5

Public Declare Function SHAppBarMessage Lib "shell32.dll" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, pData As APPBARDATA) As Long

Type RECT
        Left As Long
        Top As Long
        Right As Long
        Bottom As Long
End Type
Type APPBARDATA
        cbSize As Long
        hwnd As Long
        uCallbackMessage As Long
        uEdge As Long
        rc As RECT
        lParam As Long '  message specific
End Type

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