The Old New Thing

Why does a maximized window have the wrong window rectangle?

March 26, 2012 Mar 26, 2012 03/26/12

Raymond Chen

Commenter configurator wonders why the maximum size for a form is the screen size plus (12,12). Somebody else wonders why it's the screen size plus (16,16). Let's start by rewinding the clock to Windows 3.0. When you maximize a window, the default position of the window is such that all the resizing borders hang "off the edges of the ...