Screen Dimensions

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#1

How can you find out the user’s screen dimensions?

Under Panther you could use the following code - but under Tiger this doesn’t work anymore!!!

tell application "System Events"
     tell process "Finder"
          repeat with i from 1 to the count of windows
               if the position of window i is {0, 0} then
                    set resolution to size of window i
               end if
          end repeat
     end tell
end tell
#2

Vincent,

There is a command line utility called cscreen that should do what you want.

http://www.pyehouse.com/lynn/cscreen.php

You could then just:

do shell script “cscreen”

and parse out the data you want.

Andy

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#3

Thanx!
But I’m searching for a stand-alone solution! :confused:
There are always some 3rd party apps which could do this or that thing - but what if I don’t want to have to install dozens of 3rd party stuff to be able to do my stuff
Get the point?

Still hoping.
Vince

#4

If you’re only dealing with one monitor, it’s as simple as:

set {junk, junk, x, y} to bounds of window of desktop