Getting current screen resolution

[Thomas Morton]

This is a "thing" that has been annoying me all morning: and I can't
work out how to do it.

I need a way to get the DPI or screen resolution of the monitor that a
script is currently runnign on.

I have a way in Windows but it doesnt port to Unix (which is important).

Any ideas?

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[Miki]

Hello,

This is a "thing" that has been annoying me all morning: and I can't
work out how to do it.

I need a way to get the DPI or screen resolution of the monitor that a
script is currently runnign on.

I have a way in Windows but it doesnt port to Unix (which is important).

Any ideas?

Maybe one of Tkinter.Tk winfo_* methods?

HTH,
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Miki <mi*********@gmail.com>
http://pythonwise.blogspot.com

[Larry Bates]

Thomas Morton wrote:

This is a "thing" that has been annoying me all morning: and I can't
work out how to do it.

I need a way to get the DPI or screen resolution of the monitor that a
script is currently runnign on.

I have a way in Windows but it doesnt port to Unix (which is important).

Any ideas?

warning - be very careful about trying to come up with something like this.
Today it is common for people to have more than one monitor, so you will need to
take that into account. Just getting resolution of one monitor might not be
enough (but then I don't know EXACTLY what is is that you are doing with the
resolution). I see a lot of software that ignores the dual-monitor possibility.

-Larry

[Thomas Morton]

Yeh that's not such an issue - this is for some basic image analysis for a
document / report. It's not HUGELY important data (it can be wrong with no
real come back) but it has to be roughly accurate...

The idea is I have an image and I need to work out how big it displays on
the monitor of the computer running the script :)

Thanks for the replies so far ppl :) I think I might have it.......

Tom
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From: "Larry Bates" <la*********@websafe.com`>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:16 PM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
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Subject: Re: Getting current screen resolution

Thomas Morton wrote:

>This is a "thing" that has been annoying me all morning: and I can't
work out how to do it.

I need a way to get the DPI or screen resolution of the monitor that a
script is currently runnign on.

I have a way in Windows but it doesnt port to Unix (which is important).

Any ideas?

warning - be very careful about trying to come up with something like
this.
Today it is common for people to have more than one monitor, so you will
need to take that into account. Just getting resolution of one monitor
might not be enough (but then I don't know EXACTLY what is is that you are
doing with the
resolution). I see a lot of software that ignores the dual-monitor
possibility.

-Larry
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