Two questions

[Thierry Arbellot]

According to RR documentation, the screenRect is not updated when the 
user changes the resolution.

Thierry Arbellot.

On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 08:09 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, "Thomas J McGrath III"  wrote:
>
>> 1. How do I know what the screen size of all users will be?
>
> If you're asking how to check the screen size, you can get the 
> screenRect.
> If you're asking what resolution people run, nobody knows for sure.  
> The
> best you can do is collect statistics from your users/audience, or look
> online for more generalized usage statistics.
>
>
>> 2. How do I know when the screen size is changed during operation of 
>> my
>> project? While it is running
>
> I don't believe there is any message that Rev receives when this 
> happens
> (although it seems on Windows stacks can be automatically resized, and 
> thus
> get a resizeStack message, if the resolution is reduced to dimensions
> smaller than the stack's current rect).  If you expect users to be
> constantly changing resolution while running your app, you could run 
> your
> own resolution monitor, something like:
>
>   on preOpenStack
>     # other scripts here
>     set the uStoredRect of me to the screenRect
>     checkMonitor
>   end preOpenStack
>
>   on checkMonitor
>     # GRAB CURRENT SCREENRECT AND COMPARE TO STORED RECT
>     if the screenRect <> the uStoredRect of me then
>       # run resize script here
>       set the uStoredRect of me to the screenRect
>     end if
>     send "checkMonitor" to me in 1 second
>   end checkMonitor
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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