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- From: Timothy Eves <se1te@dmu.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Size of screen in millimeters?
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:46:45 +0000
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- Juergen Weinelt wrote:
- >
- > Hσkan Younes (d93-hyo@nada.kth.se) wrote:
- > | Is it possible to get the size of a screen in millimeters
- > | by examining some system structures?
- >
- > Definitely not.
- >
-
- Hang on a minute doesn't the display database have a x and y DPI fields
- some where I could of sworn I saw some. If it does then it will get the
- info from the monitor driver, which will know about the diplay hardware
- it's written to drive.
- (Okay a relise you can't get away with this with PAL or NTSC, but
- prehaps for dedicated monitors)
-
- Tim Eves
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