Function to maximize a TCanvas window?

ROOT
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Hello,

Could you please let me know if there is a function I could call to maximize a TCanvas window?

I do not seem to be able to find how to do it programmatically.

Thank you very much,
Siarhei.

2

You can use the function SetWindowSize of TCanvas with the screen dimension.

3

Thank you for your reply! :slight_smile:

Usually, some part of the screen area is taken by the menu bar, the task bar, plus I work on 3 different screens in a virtual machine or in a NX session (which means I also have to take into account the menu bar size and the dock size of the main operating system), which makes is very difficult to predict exactly what window size I should set.

Could you please let me know if there is a way in ROOT to figure out automatically the size of the active screen area of a given window manager (i.e. the size of a maximized window)?

Thank you very much,
Siarhei.

4

I have never seen any window manager doing that. Usually “maximize” means “full screen”… I guess…
I am not aware of a such function in ROOT.

5

Hi,
att a little program which finds out the size of your screen,
this works also with e.g. X2Go.

g++ -g standalone.cxx `root-config --glibs` ./a.out
Cheers
Otto
standalone.cxx (1.15 KB)