It doesn't centre if you make the task bar too high about centertaskbar HOT 15 CLOSED

Unable to reproduce, also why would anyone ever do this

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Yes. It's perfect.

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https://streamable.com/ospdbz

As for why:

1. ergonomics; putting items and text too low on the screen causes a tendency to tilt the head down, which causes neck strain if sustained for hours
2. speed; it's faster to access the task bar when it's higher up than at the bottom

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Can you try updating to the latest release?

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It isn't fixed. https://streamable.com/9d5d5s

I spoke with another developer and he explained the caused as "If the taskbar(s) height goes over 200px then TaskbarX thinks the taskbar is vertical."

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I accidentally closed the issue. It should be open.

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So the assumption from taskbarX dev is incorrect, the taskbar vertical check, at least in my script which I think TBX borrowed, compares the width and height which should be fine here and I ran the numbers, it is

var horizontal = trayBounds.Width > trayBounds.Height;

What actually looks like the issue is is that the UI scale calculation is failing. This was kind of a sneaky calculation I came up with because the certain UI elements report a scaled height and others do not, so by comparing the two values the scale could be calculated on a per-monitor basis. The issue here is that its comparing the height of an individual icon and the taskbar, which gets progressively worse the higher you drag the taskbar (icon height stays constant, container goes up and up).

I can instead use the top and left positions instead of height and get around this shortcoming I think and in my tests it seems to be working

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That should fix it

https://github.com/mdhiggins/CenterTaskbar/releases/tag/1.7

Let me know

I can't speak to the techniques TBX uses for scale calculation but I know it was an issue that I had solved early on and had passed the technique to that developer so it likely uses the same method and fails for the same reason

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Hm looks like the calculation isn't perfect, I'll need to mess around a bit more

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It isn't perfect but works sufficiently well. As seen, it isn't fully centred (the line is the centre).

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I'll explore some other options to see if I can calculate the UI scale more accurately

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https://github.com/mdhiggins/CenterTaskbar/releases/tag/1.7b

Alternate solution, seems like a more perfect calculation now

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It looks identical to version 1.7a with imperfect centering to me. https://imgur.com/a/cQ8AKfN

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Is the centering perfect when it's not stretched out?

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No. It's slightly to the left.

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Found a couple little issues with padding that appears to have been added in later windows versions so I added some calculations to monitor for that in the future
Its a bitch to get it to scale with DPI but think I got it about as accurate as I can

https://github.com/mdhiggins/CenterTaskbar/releases/tag/1.8

See if that's better

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