At some point in an application, I need to get the whole area of a screen that is useable (without toolbars, and in Windows 8, side-by-side apps). That is done by either calling
GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment().getMaximumWindowBounds();
or, if you want to do it directy
GraphicsConfiguration gc = myGraphicsDevice.getDefaultConfiguration();
Insets insets = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenInsets(gc);
Rectangle usableBounds = gc.getBounds();
usableBounds.x += insets.left;
usableBounds.y += insets.top;
usableBounds.width -= (insets.left + insets.right);
usableBounds.height -= (insets.top + insets.bottom);
(which, is the exact same way in which SunGraphicsEnviroment performs the first operation).
The problem I'm having is that, when I'm on single-screen, getScreenInsets() correctly take the side-by-side app into account (getting a result like java.awt.Insets[top=0,left=971,bottom=48,right=0]). However, if I'm in a multiscreen enviroment, BOTH screens show insets with left = 0 (java.awt.Insets[top=0,left=0,bottom=60,right=0])
Should getInsets used differently with multiscreen, or is this a Java problem? I'm using 1.7v40. I haven't found anything like this on the Oracle bug database, either.
