SetWindowPos with different scaling monitors sets position to a wrong location - c++

I have 2 monitors with different resolution and scaling:
2560 * 1440 scaling x1 (Primary)
1920 * 1200 scaling x1.5 (to the left from primary
[2][1] aligned to top)
My application is changing position of another app window. The window I try to set location has dimensions 300x200. I set window location to (-150|200) and in the very next row check the location:
::SetWindowPos(this->handle, 0, lLeft, lTop, 0,0, SWP_NOREPOSITION | SWP_NOSIZE);
// output lLeft, lTop
RECT r = { 0 };
::GetWindowRect(this->handle, &r);
// output r.left, r.top
And I have following output:
<< -150 200 // SetWindowPos
>> -740 133 // GetWindowRect
After positioning the window has scaling 1 (from primary) while is located on secondary and should have scaling 1.5
It misplaces the window with x = [-150 ... 0]
It looks like this happens when the window is partially on secondary monitor and the middle point of the window already on primary monitor.
Is there anything I can do to avoid such behavior?

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How to align window to windows' taskbar

I'm trying to position my Win32 API window alongside (e.g. left-sided vertical) taskbar. My display has 2560x1600 resolution and 144 DPI. I had some problems with DPI-aware apps previously, so maybe I still don't undestand some DPI-related things. For example, now I set DPI-awarness both programmatically - setting the DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT_PER_MONITOR_AWARE_V2 option through the Win32 API, and adding two lines (to support Windows 7-10) to the project's manifest file:
<dpiAware xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings">True/PM</dpiAware>
<dpiAwareness xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2016/WindowsSettings">PerMonitorV2</dpiAwareness>
Here is a code snippet, that shows how I'm setting a window's position:
RECT taskbarRect = {0, 0, 0, 0};
HWND taskbarHandle = FindWindow(L"Shell_TrayWnd", NULL);
if (taskbarHandle) {
GetWindowRect(taskbarHandle, &taskbarRect);
} else {...}
RECT notificationWindowRect; // Here is the RECT for window, I'm trying to reposition.
GetWindowRect(notificationWindowHandle, &notificationWindowRect);
LONG newX = 0;
LONG newY = 0;
bool taskbarIsVertical = (taskbarRect.Height() > taskbarRect.Width());
if (taskbarRect.left == 0 && taskbarIsVertical) { // left vertical taskbar
newX = taskbarRect.right;
newY = taskbarRect.bottom - notificationWindowRect.Height();
} else {...}
SetWindowPos(notificationWindowHandle, NULL, newX, newY, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE);
When system scaling is set to 100%, it's almost working - taskbarRect has a width of 63, but still there is a gap of a few pixels between the taskbar's right side and my window's left side. Note, that my window has the popup style and has no borders.
However, the main problem happens, when I set Windows' scaling to 150%. From the one hand, the taskbarRect's width becomes equal to 94, which I suppose is correct because 63 * 1.5 == 94. On the other hand, my window becomes hidden a little bit from the left side by the taskbar. To handle that, I need to add 65 pixels:
newX = taskbarRect.right + 65;
I don't understand where this 65-pixel shift appears from, and why it is exactly 65 pixels.

Windows: Getting a window title bar's height

I was trying to get the height of the title bar of a specific window on Windows. You can replicate it with Notepad. I'm using C++ and none of the codes I found online yielded the correct result. Using e.g. Screenpresso I measured 31 pixels for my window bar height.
The functions I tried are the following:
TitleBarHeight.h:
#pragma once
#include <windows.h>
inline int get_title_bar_thickness_1(const HWND window_handle)
{
RECT window_rectangle, client_rectangle;
GetWindowRect(window_handle, &window_rectangle);
GetClientRect(window_handle, &client_rectangle);
return window_rectangle.bottom - window_rectangle.top -
(client_rectangle.bottom - client_rectangle.top);
}
inline int get_title_bar_thickness_2(const HWND window_handle)
{
RECT window_rectangle, client_rectangle;
GetWindowRect(window_handle, &window_rectangle);
GetClientRect(window_handle, &client_rectangle);
return (window_rectangle.right - window_rectangle.left - client_rectangle.right) / 2;
}
Results:
auto window_handle = FindWindow("Notepad", nullptr);
auto a = get_title_bar_thickness_1(window_handle); // 59
auto b = get_title_bar_thickness_2(window_handle); // 8
auto c = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSIZEFRAME); // 4
auto d = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYCAPTION); // 23
Getting the system metrics with GetSystemMetrics() does not work because windows can have different title bar heights obviously and there is no argument for the window handle.
How can I really get the result of 31?
Assuming that you don't have menu bar, you can map points from client coordinate system to screen one
RECT wrect;
GetWindowRect( hwnd, &wrect );
RECT crect;
GetClientRect( hwnd, &crect );
POINT lefttop = { crect.left, crect.top }; // Practicaly both are 0
ClientToScreen( hwnd, &lefttop );
POINT rightbottom = { crect.right, crect.bottom };
ClientToScreen( hwnd, &rightbottom );
int left_border = lefttop.x - wrect.left; // Windows 10: includes transparent part
int right_border = wrect.right - rightbottom.x; // As above
int bottom_border = wrect.bottom - rightbottom.y; // As above
int top_border_with_title_bar = lefttop.y - wrect.top; // There is no transparent part
Got 8, 8, 8 and 31 pixels (96DPI aka 100% scaling setting)
You should also take into account DPI awareness mode. Especially GetSystemMetrics is tricky because it remembers state for System DPI when your application was launched.
Send a message WM_GETTITLEBARINFOEX to the window, and you will get the bounding rectangle of the title bar.
TITLEBARINFOEX * ptinfo = (TITLEBARINFOEX *)malloc(sizeof(TITLEBARINFOEX));
ptinfo->cbSize = sizeof(TITLEBARINFOEX);
SendMessage(hWnd, WM_GETTITLEBARINFOEX,0, (LPARAM)ptinfo);
int height = ptinfo->rcTitleBar.bottom- ptinfo->rcTitleBar.top;
int width = ptinfo->rcTitleBar.right - ptinfo->rcTitleBar.left;
free(ptinfo);
First, make sure your application is high DPI aware so that the system doesn't lie to you.
Options:
Trust GetSystemMetrics. Nearly any top-level window that actually has a different caption size is doing custom non-client area management which is going to make it (nearly) impossible. The obvious exception is a tool window (WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW) which probably has a SM_CYSMCAPTION height if the WS_CAPTION style is also set.
Get the target window rect and the target window's style. Use AdjustWindowRectEx to determine the size differences with the WS_CAPTION style toggled. I'm not sure if this will work because there may be some interaction between on whether you can have a caption without some kind of border.
Get the target window rect and send WM_HITTEST messages for coordinates that move down the window. Count how many of those get HT_CAPTION in return. Bonus points if you do this with a binary search rather than a linear search. This is probably the hardest and the most reliable way to do it, assuming the window has a rectangular caption area.
If I've understood correctly, it looks like you want to take the border size of the window (which we should be able to gather from the width as there is no title bar) and subtract it from the the verticle size minus the client window...
inline int get_title_bar_thickness(const HWND window_handle)
{
RECT window_rectangle, client_rectangle;
int height, width;
GetWindowRect(window_handle, &window_rectangle);
GetClientRect(window_handle, &client_rectangle);
height = (window_rectangle.bottom - window_rectangle.top) -
(client_rectangle.bottom - client_rectangle.top);
width = (window_rectangle.right - window_rectangle.left) -
(client_rectangle.right - client_rectangle.left);
return height - (width/2);
}

OpenCv border top and left OpenGL frame c++

I'm using a self compiled of OpenCv 3.3 with OPENGL and CUDA enabled on Windows 7.
I'm having trouble to display an image in fullscreen mode without any border.
I use the following minimal example for my test:
// Name of window
std::string name = "Test Window";
// Create window
cv::namedWindow(name, CV_WINDOW_OPENGL | cv::WINDOW_NORMAL);
cvSetWindowProperty(name.c_str(), CV_WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN, CV_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN);
// Create a frame at resolution
cv::Size size = cv::Size(1920, 1080);
cv::cuda::GpuMat emptyFrame;
cv::Mat frame(size, CV_8UC(3));
// Fill it in blue
cv::rectangle(frame, cv::Rect(0, 0, size.width, size.height), cv::Scalar(255, 0, 0), CV_FILLED);
emptyFrame.upload(frame);
// Size window to full resolution
cv::resizeWindow(name, size.width, size.height);
while(1)
{
// Display an empty frame
cv::imshow(name, emptyFrame);
cv::waitKey(40);
}
This code show me a full screen windows paint in blue, however it remain a ONE pixel border on top and left border:
Grey left and top border
The border seem not to be the border as explained here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/38494752/1570628
In fact it's the background of the main window created by OpenCv.
Digging into OpenCv code, it effectivelly create 2 windows inside cvNamedWindow function:
mainhWnd = CreateWindow( "Main HighGUI class", name, defStyle | WS_OVERLAPPED, rect.x, rect.y, rect.width, rect.height, 0, 0, hg_hinstance, 0 );
if( !mainhWnd )
CV_ERROR( CV_StsError, "Frame window can not be created" );
ShowWindow(mainhWnd, SW_SHOW);
//YV- remove one border by changing the style
hWnd = CreateWindow("HighGUI class", "", (defStyle & ~WS_SIZEBOX) | WS_CHILD, CW_USEDEFAULT, 0, rect.width, rect.height, mainhWnd, 0, hg_hinstance, 0);
if( !hWnd )
CV_ERROR( CV_StsError, "Frame window can not be created" );
So the 'border' we saw is the mainhWnd (Main HighGUI class) color.
However, it mean that my displayed image in blue is shifted by one pixel to the rigth and bottom of my screen, so I loose 1 line of pixel on bottom and right side because they overflow the screen.
I can see that it's the case because on a dual screen I can see the right line of pixel overflow on my second screen. More over, if I draw an horizontal line to the last line of my image, it doesn't appear, same occur on vertical line for last column of my image.
For testing solution, I tried to change style of mainhWnd and hWnd directly in OpenCv code by using many combination of flags, also testing using WS_POPUP, but anyway I always have this top and left border.
I also tried solution here but it do not remove the border:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6512315/1570628
Do anyone have a clue for my problem?
Regards.
Hey this worked for me (at least it did on python, and since you just have to change a flag, i believe this will work for you too)
Change this flag "CV_WINDOW_OPENGL | cv::WINDOW_NORMAL)" to this flag "WINDOW_FREERATIO"
And voila! Problem Solved

CreateWindowEx invalid X position once created

I've noticed that once a window is created using "CreateWindowEx" with x=0, y=0 position coordinates, window does not appear to be located in the the 0,0 corner of the screen. Instead it appears at the x=9, y=0.
I'm using a single monitor.
I'm not modyfing it's position anywhere else.
Window is created as an overlapped parent window.
When window is created, WM_MOVE get's called with x=8, y=31. (Those are "client-area" coordinates)
(It's a bit strange that WM_MOVE y coordinate is 31px but in the screenshot you can see that it should be ~38px...)
Window is created by:
mHandle = ::CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_APPWINDOW, CLASS_NAME, APP_NAME, WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, 0, 0, mWidth, mHeight, HWND_DESKTOP, nullptr, mInstance, this);
Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? What might be the reason?

How to get Windowed Window's Screen coordinate of each Corner in X-window?

Like attached my photo, I want to get "Windowed Window's Screen coordinate of each Corner in X-window". (I draw red dots, which I want to get as Screen coordinates, in the following image. What I am going to do later is to get exact middle point of my OpenGL window in 2D screen coordinate.
I tried following code already:
int* getWindowPos(Display *dpy) {
int winPos[2];
Window myWin;
myWin = XRootWindow(dpy, 0);
XWindowAttributes xwa;
XGetWindowAttributes(dpy, myWin, &xwa);
// printf("%d %d\n", xwa.x, xwa.y);
return winPos;
}
but this "XWindowAttributes" always gives me 0 in x point ,0 in y point, and width 1600 and height 900, which is same as my screen resolution.
following is what I coded to create this windowed window.
GLWin.win = XCreateWindow(GLWin.dpy, RootWindow(GLWin.dpy, vi->screen),
0, 0, 800, 600, 0, vi->depth, InputOutput, vi->visual,
CWBorderPixel | CWColormap | CWEventMask, &GLWin.attr);
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