How to get the width and height of a winapi window?

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As the title says, I need to know the dimensions of a window and I do not know what api I have to use ...

I have looked unsuccessfully at GetWindowInfo, GetWindowPlacement and SetRect.

Could you please help me?

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As the title says, I need to know the dimensions of a window and I do not know what api I have to use ...

I have looked unsuccessfully at GetWindowInfo, GetWindowPlacement and SetRect.

Could you please help me?

Posted 25-Jun-17 14:36pm

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Updated 26-Jun-17 0:00am

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G3Coder · Answer 1 · 2017-06-26T00:00:00

Hi,

You aren't providing many details here, but I gather you are working with Windows forms using the Windows API. If so, I'd use GetWindowRect - see GetWindowRect function (Windows)[^] . This will give you the bounding rectangle and you can get the width, height from that rectangle.

Have fun
G