Question

I’m trying to elaborate if the complete form is visible on screen. To clarify this: I don’t care if the form is partially or fully hidden by another form, I just want to know, if the form is completely on the screen.

In Windows it is possible to move forms around, such that they are hidden half way. That is because you can move them past the actual bounds of any monitor. (Further to the left, right or bottom.) How can I check if that is the case in an easy way?

What I figured I could do is to check if the form is in bounds of SystemInformation.VirtualScreen. The problem here is, that not every pixel of the virtual screen is actually visible. Of course this would work if SystemInformation.MonitorCount = 1

Still I’m not really happy with this.

Answer 1

Best way I can think of is that you check that all four corners of the form are on a screen. Like this:

    public bool FormOnScreen(Form frm) {
        if (frm.IsHandleCreated) throw new InvalidOperationException();
        if (!frm.Visible || frm.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized) return false;
        return PointVisible(new Point(frm.Left, frm.Top)) &&
               PointVisible(new Point(frm.Right, frm.Top)) &&
               PointVisible(new Point(frm.Right, frm.Bottom)) &&
               PointVisible(new Point(frm.Left, frm.Bottom));
    }

    private static bool PointVisible(Point p) {
        var scr = Screen.FromPoint(p);
        return scr.Bounds.Contains(p);
    }