Need way in G to get monitor size minus taskbar, OS independent
Does anyone have a picture showing how, given a VI, I can get ...
... the size of the monitor hosting that VI's panel...
... minus the taskbar size (if any) on that monitor...
... in a platform (OS) independent manner?
I had a clean-but-annoying way to do this until I discovered that Windows10 has a mode that lets the task bar be replicated onto different monitors (and, worse, those taskbars aren't necessarily the same size). The only trick I can come up
That pretty much defeats the purpose of the VI. The whole point of the exercise was to figure out how big to size the VI relative to the monitor so the caller VI could maximally lay out its controls without taking up the whole screen... and if I don't know which monitor it is on, it doesn't work. 🙂
BUT... you made a great point about the run-time engine.
You're right that I should have avoided the use of scripting, esp since there's a dead obvious existing VI to use -- the subVI itsel