Determine screen resolution (on Windows)

[mdog]

Brethern --

Is there any way to determine the resolution / dimensions of the screen where a perl script would be running...on Windows?

Ideally, it would detect the number of monitors and for each monitor report the resolution.

I've check the internets, super search, and CPAN (Win32::GUI) and can't find anything so far.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
mdog

[shonorio]

Yes, you can do this, fellow my script :


use Win32::API;

Win32::API::Struct->typedef( RECT => qw{
                                LONG Left; 
                                LONG Top;
                                LONG Right;
                                LONG Bottom; });

Win32::API->Import("User32", "int GetDesktopWindow ()");
Win32::API->Import("User32", "int GetWindowRect ( int hWnd, LPRECT lpR
+ect)");

my $h = GetDesktopWindow();
my $r = Win32::API::Struct->new('RECT');
GetWindowRect ( $h, $r );

print "Screen Resolution : ", $r->{Right} - $r->{Left}, ' x ',
                              $r->{Bottom} - $r->{Top};

... or this code to enumerate all monitor. I didn't tested because I don't have host with more than one monitor >( !!

use Win32::API;
use Win32::API::Callback;

Win32::API::Struct->typedef( RECT => qw{
                                LONG Left; 
                                LONG Top;
                                LONG Right;
                                LONG Bottom; });

Win32::API::Struct->typedef( MONITORINFO => qw{
                                LONG cbSize; 
                                RECT rcMonitor;
                                RECT rcWork;
                                LONG dwFlags; });

Win32::API->Import('User32', 'EnumDisplayMonitors', 'NPKN', 'N');
Win32::API->Import('User32', 'int GetMonitorInfoA (int hMonitor, LPMON
+ITORINFO lpmi)');

my $MonitorEnumProc = Win32::API::Callback->new(
    sub {
        my( $hMonitor, $hdcMonitor, $lprcMonitor, $dwData) = @_;
        
        my $MI     = Win32::API::Struct->new('MONITORINFO');
        my $R      = Win32::API::Struct->new('RECT');
        $MI->{cbSize} = 40;
        GetMonitorInfoA ($hMonitor, $MI);
        print "Monitor resolution : ",
            $MI->{rcMonitor}->{Right} - $MI->{rcMonitor}->{Left}, ' x 
+',
            $MI->{rcMonitor}->{Bottom} - $MI->{rcMonitor}->{Top}, "\n"
+;
        return 1;
    },
    "NNPN", "N",
  );

EnumDisplayMonitors ( 0x0, 0x0, $MonitorEnumProc, 0x0  );

[larryk]

You should be able to get the size of the desktop window by using the desktop window handle which you can get from Win32::GUI. I'm sure I have done this before (to position a Win32::GUI window in the centre of the screen).

As for the number of monitors... hmm - sounds like you're going to have to do something fancy with Win32::API - good luck :)

[Ieronim]

Win32::GUI can do this work for you :) The slightly modified code from its documentation:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use Win32::GUI;

my $desk = Win32::GUI::GetDesktopWindow();
my $dw = Win32::GUI::Width($desk);
my $dh = Win32::GUI::Height($desk);

print "${dw}x$dh\n";

Getting the size of all monitors can be difficult, as the desktop can be stretched or duplicated, and you cannot determine this easily :)

[zentara]

Well, I couldn't let this go without giving a simple Tk solution. It works on linux, and probably should work on Windows.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;

my $mw=tkinit;
$mw->withdraw;

$height = $mw->screenheight;
$width = $mw->screenwidth;
$depth = $mw->screendepth;

print "height->$height  width->$width  depth->$depth\n";
Tk::exit;

MainLoop;