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 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-May/162433.html .
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | import ctypes
def work_area():
class RECT(ctypes.Structure):
_fields_ = [('left',ctypes.c_ulong),
('top',ctypes.c_ulong),
('right',ctypes.c_ulong),
('bottom',ctypes.c_ulong)]
r = RECT()
ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(win32con.SPI_GETWORKAREA, 0, ctypes.byref(r), 0)
return map(int, (r.left, r.top, r.right, r.bottom))
print work_area()
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This recipe requires ctypes from http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes .