Get the position of the windows start menu

Question

I'm writing an app in Python that automatically moves stuff around. How do I get the position of the windows start menu bar, so I can account for it in my calculations?

Answer 1

Ah, found it. GetMonitorInfo: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd144901(VS.85).aspx . Here is an example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd162826(VS.85).aspx .

Answer 2

When you ask for the work area, the taskbar area is automatically excluded.

System.Parameters.WorkArea

or Use interop to

SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA, ...)`  

and you are done.

Answer 3

To get the rectangle use SHAppBarMessage(). You would do the following in C++:

APPBARDATA abd = {0};
SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETTASKBARPOS, &abd);

And then abd.rc would contain the rectangle. You just have to do the pywin32 equivilent.

Please note that GetMonitorInfo() will give you the working area, which is desktop - appbars, but the Task Bar is not the only appbar that might exist.