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RE: [WIN] screen resolution problem

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Aug 24, 2001
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George,

The Win32Lib help docs for this function contain a link to MSDN online 
where you can find a list of codes.  However, if you just want the 
screen size, try "getRect( Screen )".

getRect returns the pixel positions of the top-left corner and the 
bottom right corner. For Screen, Printer and bitmaps the top-left is 
always 0,0 and thus right is the width and bottom is the height.

-- Brian 


George Walters wrote:
> 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>
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:55 AM
> 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >