Re: how to determine maximum possible window size?

[Mark Leisher <mleisher math nmsu edu>]

Chris MacGregor wrote:
> On 02/05/2008 08:11 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> > my "portable" way to do it is to ask how big the window is *after* the
> > change has taken place, rather than try to guess ahead of time. This is
> > particularly important when you want differentiate between "fullscreen"
> > and "maximized", which are not necessarily equivalent.

My "portable" way in cases like this is to simply guess at an initial 
size. I typically make the initial window 75% of the available screen 
width and height. That has been acceptable to users more often than not. --
Mark Leisher