[SOLVED] Get the availableGeometry of monitor WITH the taskbar on Windows

[holygirl]

While in the showMaximized mode, I'm trying to set a background image to my mainwindow by obtaining the size of the screen using

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QRect rect = desktopWidget->availableGeometry();
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But this returns the size of the screen excluding the taskbar. I read in the documentation that if int screen = -1 then the whole screen would be considered. Where do I specify the parameter? I tried

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QRect rect = desktopWidget->availableGeometry(int screen = -1);
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and

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int screen = -1;
QRect rect = desktopWidget->availableGeometry(screen);
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But I suppose the above two methods are syntactically wrong. Could someone please help me in this regard?
Thanks.

[vidar]

If you're using Qt 5 you could use the QScreen class ( QScreen::geometry ).

[utcenter]

Yes, according to the documentation that method should indeed return the full resolution of the display. Having the parameter "= -1" simply sets a "default" value to call the method without any parameter and use -1.

Keeping in mind 99.99% of the screens out there are with standard resolutions or aspect ratios, you could easily calculate the actual size.

[vidar]

P.S. using availableGeometry with -1 won't help. -1 is the screen no.
You could also try to use QDesktopWidget::screenGeometry instead

[holygirl]

Thank you, vidar. Yes, I'm using Qt 5 and using screenGeometry helped achieve what I was trying to do. Thank you so much.