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Re: the "real" screen size [message #73016 is a reply to message #73014]

Mon, 25 October 2010 08:33

David Fanning
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wlandsman writes:

> Does the function below originally written by Dick Jackson work for
> Windows? (I don't have a Windows machine to test it.)

Well, not really.

IDL> print, getprimaryscreensize()
1280 1024
IDL> device, get_screen_size=s & print, s
1280 1024

The monitor *is* that big, but windows created that
size fall behind the Windows start bar, etc.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: the "real" screen size By: wlandsman on Mon, 25 October 2010 09:00
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 08:41
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 08:33
		Re: the "real" screen size By: wlandsman on Mon, 25 October 2010 08:28
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 07:18
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 07:17
		Re: the "real" screen size By: Carsten Lechte on Mon, 25 October 2010 07:07
		Re: the "real" screen size By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 25 October 2010 06:58
		Re: the "real" screen size By: lecacheux.alain on Mon, 25 October 2010 06:54
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 06:36
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 06:32
		Re: the "real" screen size By: wlandsman on Mon, 25 October 2010 06:26
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 06:10
		Re: the "real" screen size By: lecacheux.alain on Mon, 25 October 2010 06:01
		Re: the "real" screen size By: Carsten Lechte on Mon, 25 October 2010 05:42
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 05:19
		Re: the "real" screen size By: Carsten Lechte on Mon, 25 October 2010 01:56
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Sun, 24 October 2010 17:16
		Re: the "real" screen size By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2010 09:02

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