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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / How to determine user's screen resolution?

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Steverino
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 18:35
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How do you find out what resolution the user's system is actually set to?

PERFORM CHECKLIST FOR DISPLAY MODES tells me their graphics card can handle 1920x1080 (but doesn't mention that their monitor's only good up to 1024x768). If they're running Windows at 800x600x32, I'd like to make my DB program run at that too. If there's a single DBP command for this, I can't find it in the docs. Any ideas?
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 18:54
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Well, there's my DLL - which lets the user select a valid graphics mode (no 8 or 24 bit modes) - If I remember correctly the default selection is the current resolution (if not, it can easily be updated).

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mimesis
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 21:44
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Probably there is a function call you can use to one
of the windows dll's, like "user32.dll" or "gdi32.dll".
Can any dll guru confirm this?
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IanM
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 22:17
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Use this to get the current desktop resolution:



One thing - if you set the app to fullscreen non-windowed mode, then it will report that resolution, not the desktop resolution.
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mimesis
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 22:23
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IanM,U r the MaN!
ThX a lot!
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IanM
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 22:49
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You're welcome.

I think I might keep track of all these little snippits on my web site ... if I ever get around to finishing it
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mimesis
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Posted: 13th Jan 2003 23:52
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Is it possible to detect the Screen Depth also with
the same function call?
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IanM
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Posted: 14th Jan 2003 00:36
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There'ss no easy way to do it from windows... try using 'screen depth()' instead
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mimesis
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No! I refuse to use a dbp command. Must use DLL!
They are : a)better b)faster c)great forum support!

It's only a matter of time until we can replace the
whole dbp language with dll calls!

he!You didn't see that one coming ,didn't you dbs?

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Mnemonix
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Can i post your code snippit in my forum? IanM

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Steverino
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Posted: 14th Jan 2003 03:55
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Thank you, IanM! What a truly excellent snippet.

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indi
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Posted: 14th Jan 2003 04:20
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all hail that snippet for it is divine thankyou also

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IanM
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Everyone anywhere is hereby granted the right to use any code I publish for any use whatsoever with no restrictions.

Was that wide ranging enough?
Help yourselves guys.
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Mnemonix
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Posted: 14th Jan 2003 19:32
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TY

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Kangaroo2
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Steverino and especially IanM THANK YOU I was just about to post a thread asking how to do that exact thing! Most most useful, IanM you just earned yourself a thank you in my credits of my games If you want your full name or a weblink, just email me

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A_M
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Posted: 14th Jan 2003 23:38
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I haven't actually tried this in DB but I think this should work:



/ Andreas Mattsson
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Posted: 15th Jan 2003 00:00
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I did think of trying something like that, but to be quite honest, it seemed like far too much work when SCREEN DEPTH() is already available
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