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gui_getmenubarheight

Tristan Hume edited this page Apr 23, 2012 · 2 revisions

#GUI.GetMenuBarHeight

##Syntax GUI.GetMenuBarHeight : int

##Description Returns the height of the menu bar. Useful when drawing or placing widgets to make certain that they don't overlap the menu bar.

##Example The following program draws a red box in the window just belowe the menu bar.

    import GUI in "%oot/lib/GUI"
    
    var menu : int := GUI.CreateMenu ("File")
    var item : int := GUI.CreateMenuItem ("Quit", GUI.Quit)
    
    Draw.FillBox (0, 0, maxx, maxy  GUI.GetMenuBarHeight  2, 
        brightred)
    
    loop
        exit when GUI.ProcessEvent
    end loop

##Status Exported qualified.

This means that you can only call the function by calling GUI.GetMenuBarHeight, not by calling GetMenuBarHeight.

##See also gui_createmenu.html.

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