Thursday, January 13, 2011

How to snap a window to the screen edge

WinAMP has this very useful feature. If you drag it to the edge of the screen it will automatically position itself. Sometimes you want to make room on the screen but you don't want to minimize your program and again you want to see it in full. The only way is the put it in a corner and set it exactly to the screen border. Well, this can be quite a challenge :-)
But there's no need to panic. All we have to do is intercept when the window is being moved and adjust it as needed.
This code adjusts the window within 30 pixels.

type
Form1 = class(TForm)
...
procedure WMExitSizeMove(var Msg: TMessage); message WM_EXITSIZEMOVE;
...
end;

procedure TForm1.WMExitSizeMove(var Msg: TMessage);
var
Pabd: APPBARDATA;
iScreenWidth, iScreenHeight: Integer;
ScreenRect, TaskBarRect: TRect;
begin
if Msg.Msg = WM_EXITSIZEMOVE then
begin
Pabd.cbSize := SizeOf(APPBARDATA);
SHAppBarMessage(ABM_GETTASKBARPOS, Pabd);

iScreenWidth := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);
iScreenHeight := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);
ScreenRect := Rect(0, 0, iScreenWidth, iScreenHeight);
TaskBarRect := Pabd.rc;

if (TaskBarRect.Left = -2) and (TaskBarRect.Bottom = iScreenHeight + 2)
and (TaskBarRect.Right = iScreenWidth + 2) then
ScreenRect.Bottom := TaskBarRect.Top
else if (TaskBarRect.Top = -2) and (TaskBarRect.Left = -2)
and (TaskBarRect.Right = iScreenWidth + 2) then
ScreenRect.Top := TaskBarRect.Bottom
else if (TaskBarRect.Left = -2) and (TaskBarRect.Top = -2)
and (TaskBarRect.Bottom = iScreenHeight + 2) then
ScreenRect.Left := TaskBarRect.Right
else if (TaskBarRect.Right = iScreenWidth + 2) and (TaskBarRect.Top = -2)
and (TaskBarRect.Bottom = iScreenHeight + 2) then
ScreenRect.Right := TaskBarRect.Left;

if Left < ScreenRect.Left + 30 then
Left := ScreenRect.Left;
if Top < ScreenRect.Top + 30 then
Top := ScreenRect.Top;
if Left + Width > ScreenRect.Right - 30 then
Left := ScreenRect.Right - Width;
if Top + Height > ScreenRect.Bottom - 30 then
Top := ScreenRect.Bottom - Height;
end;
Msg.Result := 1;
end;

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