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How can I retrieve the current screen resolution? [message #5195]

Sun, 10 September 2006 11:18

Werner
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Cologne / Germany

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Again I'm frantically browsing the documentation ... Confused

I need to retrieve the current screen resolution.

I found "static Rect GetDefaultWindowRect();" but that's not exactly what I'm looking for. I don't want to use the "OS suggested rectangle of newly open window" but the *maximal* rectangle of a newly to open window.

I found

static bool ClickFocus()
Returns OS specific working area - this is rectangle in screen coordinates
where application windows can be placed.
Return value	Work area rectangle.

but that leaves me puzzled:

1.
The name is strongly misguiding. I found this function by pure chance.

2.
I'm unable to comprehend this function. How can a boolean value return the (size of the) work area rectangle?

OK! I'm sure that there does exist a simple function, e.g. "Size ScreenSize();", which returns the dimension of the current screen - 1280 * 1024 for example. Rolling Eyes

Where is it and how is it named? Shocked

Werner

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