Windows task bar/desktop size

[wiser]

Does anyone know if there's a way to detect either:
[ul][li]the size and position of the task bar[/li]
or
[li]the dimensions of the desktop minus the task bar[/li][/ul] in Java on Windows NT/2000/XP?
Using

java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize()

I can get the screen dimensions, but this doesn't take the task bar dimensions into account, so that if I create a window using these dimensions it covers the task bar (which I find annoying, so I'm sure end users will too). I can't assume the task bar will always be in the same place as my program will be used by several users on different PCs.

I couldn't find any way to "maximise" a window either;

Frame.NORMAL

and

Frame.ICONIFIED

seem to be the only frame state constants available in

java.awt.Frame

. Any other ideas?

Thanks.

 

[idarke]

As far as maximizing a window goes, if you use a JFrame you get a maximize button, and in JDK 1.4, you can set the JFrame state to maximized and override the system-supplied maximum bounds.

However, because java is "cross platform" there isn't any way to account for the size or position of the windows task bar. I haven't found a third party product to fill this gap yet...