Constellation's Great, But the Rev IDE Doesn't Suck

[Wouter]

On 18 Oct 2005, at 19:54, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> David Burgun wrote:
>
>> You can't seem to get any information as to how many monitors are  
>> attached, or how big the Desktop is, this affects production  
>> software too. I was actually thinking of writing an external  
>> command to handle multiple monitors, the thing that has been  
>> putting me off is that I'd have to write it for Windows too, and I  
>> have no experience of programming at that level under Windows.
>>
>
> Please consider adding your votes to this excellent suggestion from  
> Ben Rubinstein:
>
> <http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=193>
>

Meanwhile on Mac OS X one can use shell:

put  shell("system_profiler -xml SPDisplaysDataType") into  
tXMLDisplayData

and parse this pList to extract the necessary information.

Greetings,
Wouter