On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:52:17 +0930 James McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would appear Mike Davis said the following on 08/25/05 18:04: > > Under WinXP it's just one big screen with the geometry being the > > maximum width/height of all the screens together. > > To the best of my knowledge, Windows treats two monitors as one big > screen (stretch mode) or as a direct copy of the main screen (clone > mode). Thats the best Windows provides. > > I think you're going to be stuck with a nasty hard coding exercise. > Thanks for all the responses, last night I found the solution I'm looking for :-) Here's a way of getting the monitor geometry for Win32 multi displays: <code> foreach my $display (Gtk2::Gdk::DisplayManager->get->list_displays) { print "display name [", $display->get_name, "] num screens [", $display->get_n_screens, "]"; my $defaultScreen = $display->get_default_screen; print "\tscreen num monitors [", $defaultScreen->get_n_monitors, "]\n"; for(my $monitorNumber = 0; $monitorNumber < $defaultScreen->get_n_monitors; $monitorNumber++) { my $monitorGeometry = $defaultScreen->get_monitor_geometry($monitorNumber); print "\t\tmonitorNumber [$monitorNumber] geometry h [", $monitorGeometry->height, "] w [", $monitorGeometry->width, "] x [", $monitorGeometry->x, "] y [", $monitorGeometry->y, "]\n"; } } </code> I suppose the '->list_displays' loop is unnecessary for Win32, but this way it can be made to work for both Linux and Win32, although a loop is required for the screens under Linux. Thanks Mike _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list