To find the size of the monitor, I've been using:
Declare Function GetSystemMetrics32 Lib "user32" Alias "GetSystemMetrics" (ByVal Index As Long) As Long
and then:
Function getMonitorSize()
monitorHeight = GetSystemMetrics32(1)
monitorWidth = GetSystemMetrics32(0)
End Function
This works fine for the main monitor, but how do I find the size of an external monitor?
EnumDisplayDevices
tells you something about a monitor with a certain index. You can increment the index from 0 to whatever, until the function returns 0, which means there's no monitor with that index.
Then you call EnumDisplaySettings
to figure the size.
Private Const ENUM_CURRENT_SETTINGS As Long = -1
Private Const DISPLAY_DEVICE_ATTACHED_TO_DESKTOP As Long = &H1
Private Const CCHDEVICENAME As Long = 32
Private Const CCHFORMNAME As Long = 32
Private Type DISPLAY_DEVICE
cb As Long
DeviceName As String * CCHDEVICENAME
DeviceString As String * 128
StateFlags As Long
DeviceID As String * 128
DeviceKey As String * 128
End Type
Private Type DEVMODE
dmDeviceName As String * CCHDEVICENAME
dmSpecVersion As Integer
dmDriverVersion As Integer
dmSize As Integer
dmDriverExtra As Integer
dmFields As Long
dmOrientation As Integer
dmPaperSize As Integer
dmPaperLength As Integer
dmPaperWidth As Integer
dmScale As Integer
dmCopies As Integer
dmDefaultSource As Integer
dmPrintQuality As Integer
dmColor As Integer
dmDuplex As Integer
dmYResolution As Integer
dmTTOption As Integer
dmCollate As Integer
dmFormName As String * CCHFORMNAME
dmLogPixels As Integer
dmBitsPerPel As Long
dmPelsWidth As Long
dmPelsHeight As Long
dmDisplayFlags As Long
dmDisplayFrequency As Long
End Type
Private Declare Function EnumDisplayDevices Lib "user32.dll" Alias "EnumDisplayDevicesA" (ByVal lpDevice As String, ByVal iDevNum As Long, ByRef lpDisplayDevice As DISPLAY_DEVICE, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function EnumDisplaySettings Lib "user32.dll" Alias "EnumDisplaySettingsA" (ByVal lpszDeviceName As String, ByVal iModeNum As Long, ByRef lpDevMode As DEVMODE) As Long
Dim indAdapter As Long, indDisplay As Long
Dim ddAdapters As DISPLAY_DEVICE, ddDisplays As DISPLAY_DEVICE
ddAdapters.cb = Len(ddAdapters): ddDisplays.cb = Len(ddDisplays)
indAdapter = 0
Do Until EnumDisplayDevices(vbNullString, indAdapter, ddAdapters, 0) = 0
If (ddAdapters.StateFlags And DISPLAY_DEVICE_ATTACHED_TO_DESKTOP) = DISPLAY_DEVICE_ATTACHED_TO_DESKTOP Then
Dim NullCharPos As Long
NullCharPos = InStr(ddAdapters.DeviceName, vbNullChar)
Dim CurDeviceName As String
If NullCharPos > 0 Then
CurDeviceName = Left$(ddAdapters.DeviceName, NullCharPos - 1)
Else
CurDeviceName = ddAdapters.DeviceName
End If
Dim dmode As DEVMODE
dmode.dmSize = Len(dmode)
EnumDisplaySettings CurDeviceName, ENUM_CURRENT_SETTINGS, dmode
MsgBox "Width: " & dmode.dmPelsWidth
MsgBox "Height: " & dmode.dmPelsHeight
End If
indAdapter = indAdapter + 1
Loop