Vista - How to get the "client area" of a window?

When a window is resized the SizeChangedEventArgs only give
me the new size of the whole window including title and borders.
How do I get the width and height of what was formerly known as
"client area" of a window? In GDI the answer was given by
GetClientRect(). What's it in WPF?

fo wrote:

> When a window is resized the SizeChangedEventArgs only give me the new
> size of the whole window including title and borders. How do I get the
> width and height of what was formerly known as "client area" of a
> window? In GDI the answer was given by GetClientRect(). What's it in
> WPF?

You can get the ActualWidth/Height of the window's content (the root) element.

HTH,
Drew

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Drew Marsh
Chief Software Architect
Mimeo.com, Inc. - http://www.mimeo.com
Microsoft C# / WPF MVP
Weblog - http://blog.hackedbrain.com/

Well, it's just the other way around: I want to resize the
window's root element (a canvas) to its client area. So
I'd better ask how to do this.

Thanks,
fö

"Drew Marsh" wrote:

> fo wrote:
>
> > When a window is resized the SizeChangedEventArgs only give me the new
> > size of the whole window including title and borders. How do I get the
> > width and height of what was formerly known as "client area" of a
> > window? In GDI the answer was given by GetClientRect(). What's it in
> > WPF?
>
> You can get the ActualWidth/Height of the window's content (the root) element.
>
> HTH,
> Drew
>
> ___________________________________
> Drew Marsh
> Chief Software Architect
> Mimeo.com, Inc. - http://www.mimeo.com
> Microsoft C# / WPF MVP
> Weblog - http://blog.hackedbrain.com/
>
>
>

fö wrote:

> Well, it's just the other way around: I want to resize the window's
> root element (a canvas) to its client area. So I'd better ask how to
> do this.

Perhaps I don't undersand, this should be automatic. The Window always stretches
its content to fit the client area. Do you have a screenshot of what you're
experiencing vs. what you're expecting?

Cheers,
Drew