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Re: [WIN] screen resolution problem

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Aug 24, 2001
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I can see that getSystemMetrics(atom code) will probably do the trick, but I
can't find anywhere what the values of 'code' are to return things of
question. Like pixel width and height of screen size. Is there a list
somewhere?

...george

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Walters" <gwalters at sc.rr.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: [WIN] screen resolution problem


>
> Derek, how do you get the screen pixel dimensions?
>
>
> ...george
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [WIN] screen resolution problem
>
>
> >
> > I'm guessing the problem is that text is measured in points not pixels.
> And
> > the size of pixel changes with screen resolution and physical dimension
of
> > the screen.
> >
> > You might need to recalculate the point size needed by calling
> > getTextExtent() for a given piece of text and seeing how many actual
pixel
> > it takes up. Then adjusting the point size via setFont() until the text
> fits
> > into the control area.
> >
> > Alternately, make the controls a few pixels bigger than the minimum
> needed.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "joshua goldberg" <futures8 at bellsouth.net>
> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:08 PM
> > Subject: [WIN] screen resolution problem
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi, all.
> > >
> > > I've developed a program which call Win32Lib routines. Works and looks
> > fine on the machine on which it was devloped (19 inch monitor; set to
> > 1024/768 resolution).
> > > when the  program is moved to a system (also Win 98) with a 14 inch
> > monitor set to 648/480, the type face appears to be quite a bit larger,
> even
> > overrunning the
> > > boundaries of the PushBttons and the Lists in which data is displayed.
> The
> > text on various screens is also no longer properly centered.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions to avoid this? Any suggestions
> > appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Josh
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>