Screen Class
Used to get information about the monitors connected to the user's computer.
More information available in parent classes: Object
Notes
Although you cannot create an object of type Screen, you can access screen objects through the Screen function. See the Screen and ScreenCount functions for more information.
Example
The following reports on the values of AvailableLeft, AvailableHeight, AvailableTop, and AvailableWidth for the main screen. If the user has the Hide the Dock option on, the size of the dock when it is temporarily made visible is not taken into account.
s="Left="+ Str( Screen(0).availableleft)+ Chr(13)
s=s+"Width="+ Str( Screen(0).availablewidth)+ Chr(13)
s=s+"Top="+ Str( Screen(0).availabletop)+ Chr(13)
s=s+"Height="+ Str( Screen(0).availableheight)+ Chr(13)
Me.text=s
The following example reports on the characteristics of the user's main screen. The code is placed in the Open event of a window and displays its results in a series of EditFields in the window.
WidthField.text= Str( Screen(0).width)
AvailableHeightField.text= Str( Screen(0).availableHeight)
AvailableWidthField.text= Str( Screen(0).availablewidth)
AvailableTopField.text= Str( Screen(0).availableTop)
AvailableLeftField.text= Str( Screen(0).availableLeft)
DepthField.text=Str( Screen(0).depth)
See Also
Screen, ScreenCount functions.