How to find the height of the taskbar that is visible in the My Monitor area when the taskbar is hidden

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How to find the height of the taskbar that is visible in the My Monitor area when the taskbar is hidden

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My monitor height is 1080 when the taskbar is hidden in Windows 10, but the top of the taskbar starts at 1078. This means the height is 2, but the problem is that the taskbar is hidden, but the mouse is in the taskbar, so if you check with the taskbar up, the top of the taskbar comes out to 1040. I want to know the height of the taskbar on the monitor screen when the mouse is not up.

The API I used is monitorfromwindow, getmonitorinfo, shappbarmessage, getwindowrect

Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points

2023-08-25T10:52:48.76+00:00

The forum for Win32 API is https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/tags/224/windows-api-win32

(but I don't understand your question, when you write "the mouse is in the taskbar"...)
S.Sengupta 24,636 Reputation points MVP

2023-08-26T02:12:21.2266667+00:00

You can use SPI_GETWORKAREA with `SystemParametersInfo` to get the available screen size, excluding the taskbar, `GetSystemMetrics` can get you the full screen size, so the taskbar size is just the difference of the axis that the taskbar is one, you should check which axis that is by comparing both axies, as the taskbar my not always be on the bottom.

Ref:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11072439/get-the-height-of-the-windows-taskbar-winapi