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

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From: Nathan McNulty (nospam_at_msn.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 02:15:21 -0700

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. 

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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
> 
> 
> 
>

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