Popular recipes by Martin Dengler http://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2688909/2005-12-02T12:17:38-08:00ActiveState Code RecipesGet the actual and usable sizes of all the monitors on a multi-monitor Windows system (Python)
2005-12-02T12:17:38-08:00Martin Denglerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2688909/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/460509-get-the-actual-and-usable-sizes-of-all-the-monitor/
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Python
recipe 460509
by <a href="/recipes/users/2688909/">Martin Dengler</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>).
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<p>This recipe gets the sizes of all the monitors on a multi-monitor Windows PC. It gets both the actual resolution and the usable ("work") resolutions. The usable resolution excludes the taskbar and docked applications.</p>
Determine the available desktop area (primary monitor) on Windows (Python)
2005-12-02T07:50:39-08:00Martin Denglerhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2688909/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/460508-determine-the-available-desktop-area-primary-monit/
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Python
recipe 460508
by <a href="/recipes/users/2688909/">Martin Dengler</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/ui/">ui</a>).
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<p>This recipe is the Python implementation of the SystemParametersInfoA() invocation required to retrieve the area that application windows can inhabit. On multi-monitor setups, the windows code returns the area on the primary monitor only. This recipe is the cleaned up version of this email post <a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-May/162433.html" rel="nofollow">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-May/162433.html</a> .</p>