Furniture

[richmond62]

working screenRect does NOT detect screen furniture adequately.

This is a pox because one can have no idea what sort of
screen furniture an end user has cluttering up the screen.

I wonder if one can "hand-roll" a routine to detect screen furniture?

[Klaus]

What does "furniture" mean in this context?
Files and folders on the desktop?

[richmond62]

Adding the working adjective to either form returns the virtual co-ordinates of each screen's working-area. The working-area of a screen is defined to be the area not covered by OS furniture (such as the task bar on Windows, and the Dock and Menubar on Mac OS X).

Straight from the horse's mouth.

[Klaus]

Aha, thank you, I had no idea.
Works here on my Mac, but I do not have anything else but the macOS "Dock" cluttering up my screen

[jacque]

What OS, and what isn't detected exactly?

[bogs]

I think what your missing is the "effective" word, as in effective working screenRect.

One paragraph lower than your quote it says

Adding the effective adjective to either form returns the area of the screen the application has to itself.

[richmond62]

Is that a fact?
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Either the documentation is "insufficient" or I'm being a bit goofy; or both.

[richmond62]

Works here on my Mac

Not round this neck of the woods.

The distance between my Mac Menu bar and my Dock is 959 pixels, but
effective screenRect gives me 1003

[jacque]

Bogs means this:

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put the effective working screenrect...

[bogs]

Erm, yes, quite that Jacque

In fact, I used that very code when creating the visual layout for this dialog, then scaled everything so that the pictures would show fairly correctly (the application size would look like that on screen for the size given).

[richmond62]

No joy over here on a Mac:
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rect all exam.livecode.zip

Here's the stack.

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on mouseUp
   put "screenRect" && the screenRect into line 1 of fld "scl"
   put "working SR" && the working screenRect into line 2 of fld "scl"
   put "effective working SR" && the effective working screenRect into line 3 of fld "scl"
end mouseUp

[FourthWorld]

No joy over here on a Mac:
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srect.png
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rect all exam.livecode.zip
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on mouseUp
   put "screenRect" && the screenRect into line 1 of fld "scl"
   put "working SR" && the working screenRect into line 2 of fld "scl"
   put "effective working SR" && the effective working screenRect into line 3 of fld "scl"
end mouseUp

What's missing?

[bogs]

I don't think anythings 'missing' per se, I think he is saying that the working screenRect and effective working screenRect are reporting the same dimensions.

[FourthWorld]

I don't think anythings 'missing' per se, I think he is saying that the working screenRect and effective working screenRect are reporting the same dimensions.

Unless you're using multiple monitors that should be what we expect, no?

[richmond62]

The fact is that I can get no variant of screenRect to either:

1. Take the Dock on my Macintosh into account.

2. Take XFCE panels on various Linux distros using XFCE.