>I'm specifying wallpaper sizes for a VFP6 app. These need to be specified exactly because, typically, if you stretch or shrink an image to fit it looks crappy.
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>The width can typically be set at the screen resolution width, but height is lost due to taskbar (assume single-height), window title, menu, toolbar and VFP status bar.
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>Under W2K I've found that the maximum "available" height for a wallpaper image is about 645 pixels when resolution is 1024x768, i.e. the 5 bands specified above consume about 123 pixels.
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>I don't have an XP machine here to test with but it seems to me that the default (i.e. themed) behaviour is that the Window Title and Taskbar bands are taller than in W2K. Are any of the other bands affected as well? Can anyone tell me how much taller any of these bands are than when running in W2K?

In Windows XP, the image still takes up the entire form, e.g. 800 x 600, but part of it may be covered by the taskbar. I think it was similar in Windows 98.

Also note that the user can adjust the height of the taskbar. For example, I set it to double-height, because I frequently have many open programs, but then, I also set it to hide automatically.