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Re: Getting info on the whole screen in IDL [message #3592 is a reply to message #3582]

Fri, 17 February 1995 09:36

landsman
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In article <3i2euu$knu@adam.cc.sunysb.edu>, Chris Jacobsen
<jacobsen@xray1.physics.sunysb.edu> writes...

> The IDL parameters !D.X_SIZE and so forth tell you information
> about the active display window (at least as far as I can tell).
>
> I wanted to be able to find about the whole screen so as to
> decide how big to make windows and fonts and so on.
>
> I have written a routine
> IDL> xpixels,xpix,ypix,xmm,ymm
> IDL> print,xpix,ypix,xmm,ymm
> 1024 768 283.000 212.000

The GET_SCREEN_SIZE keyword to the DEVICE command under X windows will give
you the size of the entire screen in pixels. I think you still have to link
to the C program to get the size in mm.

--Wayne Landsman landsman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov

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