Setting proper window size with NEWT

Whats the best way to set the window size using newt so everything fits on screen properly even if a task bar is displayed?
Would like to able to allow user to select alternate screen sizes also.

This is what my window code looks like right now:

windowHeight = 1024;
windowWidth  = 1280;
glp  = GLProfile.get(GLProfile.GL2);
caps = new GLCapabilities(glp);
window = GLWindow.create(caps);
window.setUndecorated(false);    
window.setSize(100,100);
window.setVisible(true);
// Set proper size
windowHeight -= window.getInsets().getTotalHeight();
windowWidth  -= window.getInsets().getTotalWidth();
window.setSize(windowWidth, windowHeight);
window.setTopLevelPosition(window.getScreen().getWidth()/2-windowWidth/2, 0);
window.requestFocus();

Thanks!

Hi

Why not using setTopLevelSize()?

I think this is what you need:

.setUndecorated(false);
.setFullscreen(true);

This maxes out the window without hiding the task bar. In Microsoft Windows at least.

gouessej wrote

Why not using setTopLevelSize()?

Unfortunately that doesn't really solve my problem. I need to know how big I can set the
window while not going past the task bar.

For instance my resolution is 1920x1080 right now.  If I set screen size to that, the bottom
of the window is under the task bar whether I use setTopLevelSize or setSize.

What I think I need is something that takes requested screen size (ie 1920x1080), checks
to see if the task bar is visible and if so subtracts the height of the task bar from the requested
height then sets size.

Pixelapp wrote

I think this is what you need:

.setUndecorated(false);
.setFullscreen(true);

This maxes out the window without hiding the task bar. In Microsoft Windows at least.

That makes the window full screen and hides the task bar. So unfortunately that doesn't
work.

Pixelapp wrote

I think this is what you need:

.setUndecorated(false);
.setFullscreen(true);

This maxes out the window without hiding the task bar. In Microsoft Windows at least.

This is not the expected behavior, it should allow the NEWT window to be drawn above the task bar. If the task bar is still visible, it is a bug. I tested my game under Windows several weeks ago and the task bar was not displayed above the NEWT window.

zeeawk, getInsets() returns the size of the window decoration, this is not what you want. Actually, there is not yet any way of getting the size of the task bar if any.

Please use that to get the height of the task bar until we have a NEWT equivalent:
final int taskBarHeight=SystemTray.getSystemTray().getTrayIconSize().getHeight();

Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately that doesn't work quite right.

SystemTray.getSystemTray().getTrayIconSize.getHeight() returns the size of the icons in the System Tray.

The height (at least on my machine) of System tray icons is 16 which is not the right size of the Task bar which is 40 (on my machine).

Having a newt method to return the size of that task bar would be ideal or perhaps a newt equivalent to this:

 java.awt.Rectangle windowSize = java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getMaximumWindowBounds();
 java.awt.Dimension screenSize = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
 final int taskBarHeight = screenSize.height - windowSize.height;

On 08/19/2012 08:51 PM, zeeawk [via jogamp] wrote: so you like to 'maximize the window',
lets discuss the following 2 approaches:

EITHER ..

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  Dimension size = xxx.getMaximumWindowSize();
or
  Rectangle bounds = xxx.getMaximumWindowBounds()

where xxx could be the NEWT screen or similar,
however .. implementation querying the windowmanager for this information.

If anybody here know the implementation of this for: X11, Windows, OSX, ..
pls send reference and/or code snippets.

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OR ..

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BTW .. this is similar to another RFE

  window.setMaximize(boolean)
  boolean window.isMaximized()

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The latter IMHO would be cheaper to implement.
Maybe both are required .. dunno.

~Sven

It would be less ambiguous to have a method returning the size of the system tray. Maybe this could be helpful for the implementation under GNU Linux:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/systemtray-spec/systemtray-spec-latest.html