Detect working area of primary monitor

[vg8open]

I have a program that display a popup dialog above the notification area of the task bar. I am using the following function to get the work area of the primary monitor. CRect rcDesktop; ::SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA,0,&rcDesktop,0); CRect rc; GetWindowRect(rc); ScreenToClient(rc); unsigned int m_nStartPosX = rcDesktop.right - rc.Width() - 1; unsigned int m_nStartPosY = rcDesktop.bottom - rc.Height(); SetWindowPos( &wndTop, m_nStartPosX, m_nStartPosY, rc.Width(), rc.Height(), SWP_NOOWNERZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE); I tested my program on my single/dual monitor setups and it's working correctly, but one of my users reported that on his three monitor setup, the popup dialog is displaying on the wrong monitor. It seems like SystemParametersInfo() can't get the correct working area on his system. Does anyone know any other way to get the working area of the primary monitor?

[peterchen]

Looks good to me. Rather than looing for "another method" I'd verify user assumptions about where the dialog is supposed to appear are right. Also, trace or log output (return value, GetLastError, coordinates acquired).

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[Lost User]

Hi, Make sure you are compiling with COMPILE_MULTIMON_STUBS defined and add #include <multimon.h> Best Wishes, -David Delaune