Re: how do I obtain information about display, can it be obtained from registry?

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From: lucy (losemind_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:15:27 -0700

"Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Try this:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/graphics/hh/graphics/Video_Structs_bafb4f35-7dd2-4180-9f39-eb3e05b69cb1.xml.asp
>
> and this more importantly:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/graphics/hh/graphics/VideoPort_ExportedFunctions_dc0bda84-97c5-49ba-9084-04149f9be157.xml.asp
>
> Doing a little searching on MSDN will net you a lot of answers. The
> ability to gather some of this information is done through the drivers
> that are loaded. There may be limitations as to what information can be
> gathered because of this. Unfortunately, most of this will require you
> spend a lot of time learning about driver functions, may even have to
> develop your own drivers and software in order to do what you want. As
> for the projector, it should have similar information as a monitor so it
> will provide information about itself as to its max resolution and such.
>
> ----
> Nathan McNulty
>
>
> lucy wrote:
> > Dear Talented Gurus,
> >
> > Please help me. I need to read some monitor information, for example,
gamma
> > ramp, color values, and whatever information the monitor have from EDID
or
> > from the display driver?
> >
> > Anybody knows how? and I hope to find source code which can show how to
do
> > these on Windows XP...
> >
> > Also, I am doing some interesting stuff. Do
> > you know how can I get the monitor's physical viewable size(in inches),
and
> > how can I get phosphor type of the monitor(e.g. square LCD, or
dot-shaped
> > CRT, and the layout of the RGBs)? By the way, I am curious about if I
can
> > read projector's viewable size if it is connected to a projector?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > -Lucy
> >
> >
> >
> >

Hi Nathan,

There aare really very good. Thank you very much. But a second look shows
that they need DDK. Am I right? And DDK is not obtainable by free, right?

Any more ideas?

Thank you very muhc,

-Lucy

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