Re: desktop height?

[Bruce Ingalls]

Chris McMahan wrote:
> Bruce Ingalls <bingalls.NO_SPAM@fit-zones.com> writes:
> > Does anyone know a way to calculate the height of the desktop in elisp?
...
> I've got the following code with sets the initial height based on the
> current screen's resolution (working under WindowsXP with Emacs 21.2).
> This assumes the font (defined in my .emacs as MY_FONT) is already
> set. This is necessary to correctly return the frame-char-height.
Would be nice to see the syntax to set MY_FONT

...> ;;; frame sizing functions
...> (defun fix-frame ()
...
Very nice. Worked on my Linux box, which makes me believe that your code is
more portable. I did need to adjust it for the 
tray/panel/taskbar/statusbar, as
you indicated.

Consider renaming your functions, so that you can more easily remember them
with sentence completion, and so that they better fit a name space.
Instead of fix-frame, etc. try:
frame-adjust
frame-fix
frame-enlarge

While your code worked perfectly for Emacs, I had to adjust XEmacs. I 
also do this
(already) in desktop-height-approx().

I'd like to hear from the community, as to which code works better for them.
I remind users to adjust for their XEmacs & taskbars, when using your 
code, before
making judgement.

One last tradeoff with your code: the use of set-frame-height() is nice, 
in that it
can change an already running Emacs, but, as opposed to 
frame-initial-frame-plist()
or  setq default-frame-plist(), it appears to be capable to screw up an 
emacs -nw
and perhaps other console modes of Emacs/XEmacs.