Is there a way to determine and control screen resolution in RR?

Stgoldberg at aol.com Stgoldberg at aol.com
Wed Dec 7 17:51:02 EST 2005


Thanks Klaus and Ken for the great suggestions.
Steve Goldberg
> 
> >
> >> Back again, with thanks, to tap the brains of the RR experts once
> >> more:   I
> >> have created a Revolution application (on Macintosh) that calls for
> >> a screen
> >> size close to 1024x768.   Since some users (Mac or Windows) may
> >> have their
> >> monitors set to less than that, I am concerned that the stacks may
> >> be too big to
> >> fit their monitors.   While I can issue a "ReadMe" note telling
> >> users how to
> >> reset their screen resolution, is there a way   of automatically
> >> doing this in
> >> Revolution?   I.e., can Revolution determine a user's screen
> >> resolution and
> >> alert them to increase it, or, better, can Revolution change the
> >> user's screen
> >> resolution and then convert back to the original resolution when
> >> the program
> >> closes?   Thanks.
> >
> > you can check the current screen resolution by querying "the
> > screenrect".
> > I do this all the time in my "preopenstack" handlers.
> >
> > But you cannot change the resolution from within Revolution, sorry.
> 
> Well, you can do this on the Mac (OS X) using Lynn Pye's 'cscreen' command
> line app:
> 
>   http://www.pyehouse.com/lynn/cscreen.dmg
> 
> (To get info on how to use it, put it somehwere like your home directory,
> open Terminal, and type "~/cscreen -h" and hit return).)
> 
> It also lets you get the current depth, width, height and refresh rate of
> each connected monitor, and allows you t ochange any of these things
> including which display has the menubar.
> 
> For Windows, you can check out the third-party command line executable
> "MultiRes", "Resolution Changer", or "VidRes" at:
> 
>   http://www.entechtaiwan.com/files/multires.exe
>   http://www.myitforum.com/inc/upload/1365Vidchng.zip
>   http://www.jddesign.co.uk/
> 
> (For more information, see
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting/m
> sg/423d3f435989d049)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> 




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