position right bottom corner

[zybernau]

Hi everyone,

how to find the position of the right bottom corner of the screen
[llike popups in yahoo messenger]
[like google talk notifications, thunderbird mail notifications]

i need to design a form and make it display in the right bottom corner , this should work even in various resolution
800*600,1400*90 0,..


Environment:
.net frame work 2.0
visual studio 2005

Thanks,
Rajamohan.M

[QVeen72]

Hi,

This is for VB6, convert it to ur version of VB:
Make Forms property :
StartupPosition = Manual

Write this code in FormLoad Event :

[code=vb]
Me.Left = (Screen.Width - Me.Width)
Me.Top = (Screen.Height - Me.Height)
[/code]

Just take care of the Window's Task Bar's height..

Regards
Veena

[zybernau]

tHanks , Veena.

this works

screen.PrimaryS creen.WorkingAr ea.Width

screen.PrimaryS creen.WorkingAr ea.Height


but the when i increased the taskbar its is not updating the height value

is there any method to find the taskbar heights/ original work area in windows screen




??

[QVeen72]

Hi,

This is again a VB6 code :
There is no direct way to get the height/width of the Task Bor, U need to get the Work Area, and Minus it from the Total Screen Area using API's

[code=vb]
'Declare this on the top of the code window
Private Type RECT
Left As Long
Top As Long
Right As Long
Bottom As Long
End Type

Private Type TBarData
cbSize As Long
hwnd As Long
uCallbackMessag e As Long
uEdge As Long
rc As RECT
lParam As Long
End Type

Private Declare Function SHAppBarMessage Lib "shell32.dl l" (ByVal dwMessage As Long, pData As TBarData) As Long

' write this on command click:
Private Sub Command2_Click( )
Dim TBar As TBarData
SHAppBarMessage &H5, TBar
MsgBox "WINDOWS TASK BAR STATS:" & vbCrLf & "Width:" & TBar.rc.Right - TBar.rc.Left & " Height:" & TBar.rc.Bottom - TBar.rc.Top
End Sub

[/code]


Regards
Veena