How to detect display type?

[yxq]

Hi
I want to detect user display type, LCD or CRT, how to do?

Thanks

[Cor]

Hi yxq,

Mostly Herfried knows this kind of things direct, but I saw he was late very
busy in this newsgroup yesterday, so maybe it will be to late for you when
he sees your question.

I cannot find it for a display, but I gues you can start by looking for the
information in the managementobjec t with win32_ . I can find the references
to disks but not directly to displays> I hope that someone else will bring
us further on the route or maybe yourself when you look meanwhile.

I thought I send you this to bring you on the route.

I am not sure if it is there, but probably it is.

Cor

[Armin Zingler]

"yxq" <ga***@163.ne t> schrieb

Hi
I want to detect user display type, LCD or CRT, how to do?

Thanks

If MsgBox( _
"Do you read this on an LCD?", _
MsgBoxStyle.Yes No Or MsgBoxStyle.Que stion) _
= MsgBoxResult.Ye s Then

MsgBox("You own an LCD")
Else
MsgBox("You must have a CRT")
End If
Sorry, I don't have a better answer.

--
Armin

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

Mostly Herfried knows this kind of things direct, but I saw he was late very
busy in this newsgroup yesterday, so maybe it will be to late for you when
he sees your question.
A spammer tried to annoy people in this group yesterday. I tried to
send him an email but his email address was invalid. I will make an
abuse report if he contunues spamming.
I cannot find it for a display, but I gues you can start by looking for the
information in the managementobjec t with win32_ . I can find the references
to disks but not directly to displays> I hope that someone else will bring
us further on the route or maybe yourself when you look meanwhile.

'Win32_DesktopM onitor' provides a 'DisplayType' property, but I think
that won't include the information the OP wants.

<http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_desktopmo nitor.asp>

--
Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Cor]

> A spammer tried to annoy people in this group yesterday. I tried to

send him an email but his email address was invalid. I will make an
abuse report if he contunues spamming.

No really?

Terrible Herfried, but you don't have is email adres, so that will be
dificult.

:-))

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

A spammer tried to annoy people in this group yesterday. I tried to
send him an email but his email address was invalid. I will make an
abuse report if he contunues spamming.
No really?

That's the horrible truth.
Terrible Herfried, but you don't have is email adres, so that will be
dificult.

_You_ are _not_ the spammer. I stopped trying to integrate the spammer
into the community, he won't change his habits. I tried to contact the
spammer by mail, but it didn't work. If he will continue spamming, I
will make s spam report to prevent him from annoying the members of the
community.

--
Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Cor]

> _You_ are _not_ the spammer. I stopped trying to integrate the spammer

into the community, he won't change his habits. I tried to contact the
spammer by mail, but it didn't work. If he will continue spamming, I
will make s spam report to prevent him from annoying the members of the
community.

I never thought you would even think about me in that and you can easily
find my e-mail adres

I saw a very long thread, from two posters who probably where trying to
brake the record from Nak and Fergus this night?

[Cor]

Herfried,
I was trying to find a solution for the OP to find the display unit.

(It cannot be that difficult, now i have seen there is CMI_... too).

I got an errror using the Object.get methode, I did want to do it on another
way accoording to samples in/on msdn.

But I find in all samples pieces of ththis kind of Visual Basic code they
say.

Dim opt As New GetObjectOption s(null, true)
Dim o As New ManagementObjec t("root\MyNames pace", "MyClass.Name=" "abc""",
opt);

Do you know what is the meaning of this?

This is in a lot of places in msdn with the managementobjec t class.
(And the ; is for real not added by me, but the biggest problem for me is, I
cannot find the constructor of GetOpjectOption s because I could not find one
with 2 parameters).

And because I have to find things using that myClass.name="" , I cannot use
the object browser I think.

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

I got an errror using the Object.get methode, I did want to do it on another
way accoording to samples in/on msdn.

But I find in all samples pieces of ththis kind of Visual Basic code they
say.

Dim opt As New GetObjectOption s(null, true)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^

Shouldn't that read 'ObjectGetOptio ns'?

--
Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Cor" <no*@non.com> scripsit:

_You_ are _not_ the spammer. I stopped trying to integrate the spammer
into the community, he won't change his habits. I tried to contact the
spammer by mail, but it didn't work. If he will continue spamming, I
will make s spam report to prevent him from annoying the members of the
community.

I never thought you would even think about me in that and you can easily
find my e-mail adres

I saw a very long thread, from two posters who probably where trying to
brake the record from Nak and Fergus this night?

ACK. I tried to stop a "spammer" but as you can see he posted about 20
equal messages. This behavior cannot be tolerated any more because lots
of visitors will be annoyed by the large amount of OT discussion.

Please mark OT posts with an "OT" at the beginning of the subject
in order to keep track on how many of the posts are not related to the
topic of this group (Visual Basic .NET programming). And: Don't feed
the trolls. I did this for a long time because I believed that people
can change their habits to integrate smoothly with the community, but
now I know I was wrong with my opinion.

Just my 2 cents.

--
Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>