Re: [XForms] Determine Screen Sizes

[Serge Bromow]

Thanks Jens,

On 11/16/2014 02:06 PM, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:

Hi Serge,

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:07:24PM -0500, Serge Bromow wrote:

Not sure this is an Xforms question but I will put it out there. We
are doing more and more work with dual monitors. I have historically
used "fl_scrw, fl_scrh" to determine the screen size for the purpose
of placing forms, scaling and so on. In my personal case both
screens are identical so it is fairly obvious that the width
returned by fl_scrw, 3840(x1080) could not be the real size of a
known aspect ration so I simply divide by 2 to determine the real
size of each screen. More recently people are mixing screen sizes
rendering my simple formula mute. I can parse xrandr output to gain
the individual screen sizes but was wondering if there is a call in
xforms or in X to discover individual monitor sizes?

Interesting question! As far as I can see XForms is not even
aware of two screens existing. 'fl_scrw' and 'fl_scrh' are
set by the following calls of X11 macros

    fl_scrh = DisplayHeight( fl_display, fl_screen );
    fl_scrw = DisplayWidth( fl_display, fl_screen );

There's nothing for checking if there is more than a screen -
when XForms was written stuff like that simply didn't exist;-)
Probably this would require linking with that libXext (or
whatever has the functions used xrandr), which is not the
case at the moment.

It also would be interesting to know what the values of
'fl_scrw' and fl_scrh' are when there are screen of dif-
ferent sizes - could be something strange.

Well I can help with this. The first test odd setup was with a 15" 1024x768 on the left and a 17" 1440x900 on the right. The return values were  width of 2464x 900. The addition of the widths and the largest value of the height. The application when scaled full size without a border spanned both screens and the bottom of the 15" screen was missing the bottom of the application. Which I might add had the exit button on it. lol..

Since I've never used more than a single screen I'll have
to borrow a second one and do some playing around before
I can saty anything more...

I wouldn't spend any time on this. I suspect it has to do with identifying the connect hardware and selected resolutions. Parsing xrandr's output will do fine. I don't think xforms is the place to find this information since the display for both monitors appear as screen:0.0 unlike a dual X setup where one is :0.0 and the other :0.1. It happens it is handier to have the 2 monitors act as 1 desktop.

Thanks for your input Jens,

Serge

                       Best regards, Jens

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