Bot. Right corner?

[Scorpion965]

How do I set my program to run in the bottom right corner (above the clock, etc.) regardless of the user's screen resolution? I want my form to have its bot. right corner in the screen's bot. right corner...

[mbeverley]

I Smell API Calls, but I don't personally know which ones (Yet).

**Bump**

[darre1]

this will move it to the bottom right of the screen. not sure about the task bar part though

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Me.Left = Screen.Width - Me.Width
    Me.Top = Screen.Height - Me.Height
End Sub

[mbeverley]

Damn that was too easy....The only problem is the Task Bar Height.

[darre1]

Originally posted by mbeverley
Damn that was too easy....The only problem is the Task Bar Height.

well the taskbar height most like involves the API (as said) or retrieving a value from the registry...

[Hack]

Here is how to get the position of the task bar.

Private Declare Function AppBarMessage Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "SHAppBarMessage" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, pData As APPBARDATA) As Long 
 
Private Type RECT 
Left As Long 
Top As Long 
Right As Long 
Bottom As Long 
End Type 
 
Private Type APPBARDATA 
cbSize As Long 
hwnd As Long 
uCallbackMessage As Long 
uEdge As Long 
rc As RECT 
lParam As Long ' message specific 
End Type 
 
Private BarData As APPBARDATA 
Private MyPos As String 
 
Private Const ABM_GETTASKBARPOS As Long = &H5& 
 
Private Sub GetTaskBarPos() 
 
Dim WhereAmI As Long 
BarData.cbSize = Len(BarData) 
WhereAmI = AppBarMessage(ABM_GETTASKBARPOS, BarData) 
 
MyPos = "Top = " & BarData.rc.Top & vbCrLf 'contains top most position 
MyPos = MyPos & "Bottom = " & BarData.rc.Bottom & vbCrLf 'contains bottom most position 
MyPos = MyPos & "Left = " & BarData.rc.Left & vbCrLf 'contains far left position 
MyPos = MyPos & "Right = " & BarData.rc.Right & vbCrLf 'contains far right position 
MsgBox MyPos
End Sug

[mbeverley]

Hack Dude,
This wasn't even my original post, but I appreciate the code. You can bet I put that in my code library.


Michael

[Hack]

I figured it would come in handy if Scorpion965 was going to try and calculate what the bottom, right, of his screen would be, taking into consideration the position of the task bar.

[Staifour]

i think that expert programmers like code more then objects
but beginners like objects more, so if you don't want to think about all this code, you can get the taskbar's height using a control called SysInfo