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From: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Can't get AdjustWindowRect to work
Message-ID: <27331@spudge.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 91 21:30:31 GMT
References: <175@maillot_.gtephx.UUCP>
Reply-To: johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch)
Organization: Friends of Guru Bob
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In article <175@maillot_.gtephx.UUCP> corfmanr@gtephx.UUCP (Russ Corfman) writes:
>  I'm trying to get my application's window to be a certain size.

[Lots trimmed for brevity.]

>passed rectangle. One thing I just thought of is that it may have
>modified the upper left corner of the rectangle. I was assuming it
>modified the lower right since client windows always have an upper
>left corner of (0,0). If this is the case, it seems a bit inconsistent
>to me.

Inconsistency is the name of the game with the Microsoft SDK.

An excerpt from some of my own code:
	// Figure out what the new size of the window should be, taking
	// into account things like menus and title bars, etc.
	GetWindowRect(hOutputWnd, (LPRECT) &CurrentWndRect);
	WndRect.left = WndRect.top = 0;
	WndRect.bottom = image_descriptor.height;
	WndRect.right = image_descriptor.width;
	AdjustWindowRect((LPRECT) &WndRect, WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, TRUE);

	// Resize the window to accomodate the new image size.
	MoveWindow(hOutputWnd, CurrentWndRect.left, CurrentWndRect.top,
		abs(WndRect.right - WndRect.left),
		abs(WndRect.bottom - WndRect.top), TRUE);

It is perfectly normal for AdjustWindowRect() to return negative values
for top and left.

John Munsch