How to get USABLE screen size (which excludes Windows taskbar)?

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From: Patrick J. Maloney
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 21:41

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Hi.  I want to size and place a JWindow such that it covers the right half
of the screen.  I can do this without any problem EXCEPT that
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize() does not take the WinXX taskbar
into account.  Toolkit...getDesktopProperty("win.propNames") does not list
anything useful related to this.

The Windows API has a call to get this information (GetSystemMetrics()?),
but I want to avoid any platform-specific calls.

Can anyone provide a solution?  TIA

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Patrick J. Maloney
New York State
Workers' Compensation Board

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