Re: how to determine maximum possible window size?

[Chris MacGregor <chris-gtk-list bouncingdog com>]

Thanks, but those functions don't account for the space occupied by 
things like panels. Any suggestions for how to deal with that? (That was 
the question I was trying to ask.)

On 02/04/2008 07:36 AM, Mark Leisher wrote:
> Chris MacGregor wrote:
>   
> > Hello.  I've been doing some work on a GTK+ app (avidemux - see 
> > http://www.avidemux.org/) and it's been fun learning GTK+.
> >
> > We have a situation where we need to determine the largest possible size 
> > that a window can have and still fit on the screen, after deducting 
> > space taken up by panels and such, so that we can scale down the preview 
> > video size but only when necessary and no smaller than needed.
> >     
>
> gdk_screen_width() and gdk_screen_height().
>