Lee wrote:
>
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Andreas Beck wrote:
>
> > > as I once proposed, it might be desirable to know the visual's physical
> > > dimensions. Lots of applications need such information, so it would be
> > > best to provide that info at a low level instead of requiring every
> > > application to provide a calibration tool. Some devices provide that
> > > information, in which case you could simply use that to fill in the
> > > visual.size part. Else provide some means to read that information from
> > > a central configuration file (probably together with other necessary
> > > data
> >
> > Yes. 120% agreed.
>
> In general, a standard of 96 dpi could be used for video cards. This is
> generally used on Windows.
96 dpi ought to be enough. Or...no, wait...;)
"Doing a non-scalable display is the Y2K bug of user interfaces"
--Raph Lewien
(luckily, Windows is not our point of orientation)
Regards, Stefan
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Stefan Seefeld
Departement de Physique
Universite de Montreal
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
