Physical Screen Size

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Tim,

Normally, people set the screen resolution to a higher number because  
they want more to fit on their screen. They would be surprised to see  
that your application doesn't show more on screen despite a higher  
resolution, if you manage to do this.

I don't think that the actual screen size is of any importance.  
Sometimes, it could be useful to adjust an application to the screen  
resolution, e.g. if you are making a full-screen interface. The  
physical screen size has nothing to do with this.

So, why would you want to do this?

Best,

Mark

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Op 19-jan-2007, om 13:02 heeft Tim Ponn het volgende geschreven:

> Hello!
>
> I'm working on a project and I would like to get the "physical"  
> screen size of the system.  Is there a way to do this?  I see how  
> to get many of the screen attributes...but as to physical  
> siza...nadda.
>
> A cheesy way to do this, I suppose, would be to display an object  
> when the app is started up and ask the user to measure it and enter  
> the measurement.  Based on that I could calculate the size of the  
> screen.
>
> Has anyone discovered how to do this?
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Timothy R. Ponn
> ALPTEX, Inc.
>