How can I get the height of a statusbar?

[Trond]

How can I get the height of a statusbar? (I can't get my editorgadget to resize properly.)

[utopiomania]

I use this..

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    ;Statusbar
    hStatus = CreateStatusBar(#IdStatus, WindowID())
    If hStatus
      ;Get the statusbar height
      SendMessage_(hStatus, #SB_GETRECT, 0, @Value.RECT)
      SbHeight = Value\bottom - Value\top + 1

[blueznl]

or

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GetWindowRect_(statusbar_h,@rect)
ProcedureReturn (rect\bottom-rect\top)

[utopiomania]

@blueznl, I'm not shure, but

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rect\bottom - rect\top

will be one pixel too small, or am I wrong ?

[blueznl]

good one, could be

i'm not on a machine where i can check it, unfortunately

[Trond]

Thanks, I've got it working. It does not seem like it returns one too little pixels.

[utopiomania]

Seems these two methods are not returning the same rectangle coordinates.

SB_GETRECT with SendMessage() retrieves the bounding rectangle of a part in a status window.

GetWindowRect_() retrieves the dimensions of the bounding rectangle of the specified window.

All according to Microsoft, but using GetRect_() and rect\bottom-rect\top returns one pixel
too many (23,20 pixels), contrary to what I expected.

Using SB_GETRECT and Value\bottom - Value\top + 1 returns the correct height (22,19) judged
from a few screendumps both with and without XP skins enabled.