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

[Ken Ray]

On 10/19/05 8:20 AM, "Wouter" <wouter.abraham at scarlet.be> wrote:

> 
> 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.

Actually I think this may only be on Tiger - I'm sitting here on Panther an
I don't have that data type...


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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