Peter Reid wrote:
> I'm developing a desktop app for Mac & PC that displays photos of
> coins. I'd like to display them at real size but I can't find the
> properties for the current screen (i.e. the one that my app is running
> on. I can get the screen colour depth, resolution, scaling factor,
> etc. but not the physical size on the screen such as "27 inch
> diagonal" or physical px per inch.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get this info, either using just LiveCode or
> via Mac/PC shell/command scripts?
Given the wide and growing variety of screen ratios, diagonal screen
dimensions are less useful for this task.
I think pixelDensity of what you're looking for, but be forewarned:
I spent an afternoon some time ago measuring a variety of on-screen
elements across all the devices in my test pool, using a physical ruler
placed on the screen.
What I found is that LC seems to do as good a job as Android itself in
attempting to maintain consistent sizing among such a wide range of
physical display characteristics (dot pitch, etc.). Not surprising,
since AFAIK LC uses the recommended OS APIs for its resolution independence.
But the downside is that I was able to measure differences in even the
most standard elements like the status bar. Not much, just a millimeter
or two across some devices.
So if a fairly-close-but-not-perfect rendering will suffice, I think the
pixelDensity function will guide your metrics.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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