So I'm developing a game set in a virtual operating system environment which is highly customizable and runs full screen (borderless too). One of the UI elements is a menu strip that acts as a dropdown app launcher menu. It works fine at the top of the screen but when the user places it at the bottom of the screen and opens the app menu it gets split up like this:
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So after an hour of messing around I relised that the closer to the bottom of the screen it is the bigger the gap is. Finally I lined everything up and realized that even though the application is full screen and the windows taskbar is nowhere to be seen the gap in the menustrip was the size of the taskbar. So... I tried something crazy. I set the windows taskbar to autohide, ran my game and boom! Problem solved!
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But the issue is that I can't go telling every player to hide their windows taskbar. I need it to either get set to autohide when the game is run or fix the ingame menustrip to stop making a gap where the taskbar is. How do I fix this! I'm desperate :(
The fix needs to work for XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Boy this issue is killing me right now. Thanks in advance for help :cry:
So after an hour of messing around I relised that the closer to the bottom of the screen it is the bigger the gap is. Finally I lined everything up and realized that even though the application is full screen and the windows taskbar is nowhere to be seen the gap in the menustrip was the size of the taskbar. So... I tried something crazy. I set the windows taskbar to autohide, ran my game and boom! Problem solved!
But the issue is that I can't go telling every player to hide their windows taskbar. I need it to either get set to autohide when the game is run or fix the ingame menustrip to stop making a gap where the taskbar is. How do I fix this! I'm desperate :(
The fix needs to work for XP, Vista, 7 and 8. Boy this issue is killing me right now. Thanks in advance for help :cry: