🚀 go-pugleaf

John has it right,

like he says , it must b right so i'll wait to have 1.4
txs
sven

John P. McGrath <JPMcGrath@fast.net> schreef in berichtnieuws
MPG.13a250403fc5a737989983@forums.borland.com...
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 10:01:15 -0700, Joyce Luther wrote:
>
> > "Sven Goetgeluck" <sven.goetgeluck@pandora.be> wrote in message
> > news:3937621d@dnews...
> >
> > > Hi want to get the max size of a window to expand my frame ,
> > > dont 't know how to get it ,
> > >
> > > because can't get the size of the windows takbar
> >
> > Dimension myScreenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
>
> This does not really address Sven's problem.  Toolkit.getScreenSize()
> will return the full size of the screen, but I believe he wants to know
> the size of a "maximized" frame.  On Windows, the difference is the size
> of the task bar, and X11 window managers often implement a similar
> concept.
>
> Unfortunately, there is now way to obtain this information from Java as
> things stand now.  Also, assuming the goal is to implement a "maximized"
> frame within the confines of the Java API, you would also need to know
> the position for the maximized frame.  If you keep your taskbar at the
> top or left of the screen (as I am wont to do), maximizing your frame and
> placing it at [0,0] would be decidedly unfriendly.
>
> But there is hope.  There is an RFE for handling maximized frames, and it
> has been marked as fixed in a "non-public release".  I believe this means
> that we should see it when the first Merlin (JDK 1.4) beta is released.
> That may be some time later this year, with the FCS version due some time
> next year.
>
> I do not know what the implementation will look like.  It may be modeled
> after JInternalFrame, which implements a form of maximizing.  Or it may
> just be a new MAXIMIZED state for a Frame, which can currently be set to
> NORMAL or ICONIFIED.
>
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