screen resolution

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Re: screen resolution by jepri (Parson) on Sep 06, 2002 at 17:29 UTC
If you can tell us what kind of a screen you are thinking of, and what operating system you are running, we will be able to help you a little better. My general advice is to not start down that path. Put the image in a window and tell the user to resize it so the image is a comfortable size. ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply]
Re: screen resolution by peschkaj (Pilgrim) on Sep 07, 2002 at 16:05 UTC
If you are doing this for the web (I don't want to assume terribly much), you could look into SVG (at CPAN: SVG and the spec: W3C SVG 1.0). It's fairly simple and XML based, plus there is a very strong developer community. If you make something idiot-proof, eventually someone will make a better idiot. I am that better idiot.	[reply]
Re: screen resolution by mojobozo (Monk) on Sep 06, 2002 at 17:11 UTC
Granted this isn't perl code, but here's how you can do it using VBScript: `'&width='+screen.width+'&height='+screen.height+'&color_depth='+screen +.colorDepth+'` [download] Maybe find a way to combine it with perl... _____________________________________________________ mojobozo word (wūrd) interj. Slang. Used to express approval or an affirmative response to something. Sometimes used with up. Source	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: screen resolution by jepri (Parson) on Sep 06, 2002 at 17:22 UTC
Good joke. ++. I've got this mental picture of a programmer holding a giant mallet, screaming "Why won't you combine!?!" and bashing the computer with it. :) Update: s/fit/combine/ ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply]
Re: screen resolution by hacker (Priest) on Sep 07, 2002 at 12:15 UTC
TMTOWTDI `use strict; print "Enter your monitor's resolution?\n"; chomp ($_ = <>); $_ = /^\s(\d+)\sx\s(\d+)\s/i or die; print "The resolution is $1 x $2\n";` [download] If you're using a browser, why not just dump some Javascript in there, like this: `<script language="JavaScript"> var width = window.screen.availWidth var height = window.screen.availHeight alert(width + "*" + height) </script>` [download] Consult the Netscape and Microsoft object model documentation on the following properties: `screen.width screen.height screen.availWidth screen.availHeight document.body.clientWidth document.body.clientHeight` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]