Full screen?

[Andr3wHur5t]

is there a comand to get the screen height, and width?

[Andr3wHur5t]

that gets the window height, width i need the screen height, width.

thanks for the sugestion,

[Canardia]

screenwidth = GetSystemMetrics(0);	// returns the windows desktop width (works also in fullscreen mode)
				// cool trick: get screen width BEFORE switching to fullscreen mode, to
				// get fullscreen at native (=maximum, or user preferred) LCD resolution!
screenheight = GetSystemMetrics(1);	// returns the windows desktop height
windowwidth = GetWindowWidth();		// returns the LE window width
windowheight = GetWindowHeight();	// returns the LE window height
bufferwidth = GetBufferWidth(buf);	// returns the LE drawing buffer width (useful when you don't want
				// to draw on the whole window (speed up, cinemascope,
				// 2 player split screen, etc... ))
bufferheight = GetBufferHeight(buf);	// returns the LE drawing buffer height

[Andr3wHur5t]

Tanks,Lumooja

that worked.

[AggrorJorn]

always wondered that: lets say the users desktop resolution is 1440 x 900, but his game resolution is 800 x 600 fullscreen, how should you addept your game window to this?

 

Do you need to addept/stretch the buffersizes ?

[Canardia]

This is actually an quite extensive topic, since there are so many possibilities and hardware specific limitations.

 

For example my GeForce 8800 GTS + Samsung 1680x1050 LCD combo can't display 16:9 ratio resolutions in fullscreen, but only 5:4 ratio and the native 1680x1050 16:10 ratio. I'm not sure if it's because of the GPU or the monitor, or both.

 

Games should allow a seperate fullscreen resolution and buffer resolution, so that the correct aspect ratio can used, and additionally also the option to use clip&pan or black borders when the monitor's ratio does not match with the game's ratio.