You hit the nail on the head. I didn't think they would change often but "If they changed" I would like to know about it, especially if my window would resize in a way I didn't want it to. And then all that after I put in every DON'T RESIZE I could think of. So if they did it just once it would screw up my window.
Jason's answer would work to reset it during start up but what about during usage "if it ever happened". I don't like the idea of a script running every millisecond or every second just to prevent a visual disaster if the user changes the screen res or size.
You hit it when you say it could be a feature request.
But, I still think it is a BUG because if I say no resize and REV is supposed to ignore it when the user resizes then WHY is it resizing when I change the res/size of the screen?????
SO my answer is that a resolutionChanged is what is needed and I can think of many games and software that offer resolution changing as an option and things get changed once the res is changed.
Thank you so very much for your input.
TOm
On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 04:17 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Thomas J McGrath III wrote:
You see getting the screenRect is one thing but knowing when the screenRect is changed is what I want. I would prefer not to run a loop all of the time checking and waiting for the user to change it.
How often will your users change their resolution?
FWIW, spot-checking the behavior elsewhere I find that Outlook Express,
Mozilla, and even the 10.2.8 Finder do not account for resolution reduction
dynamically, and I suspect many other apps don't either. At least you're in
good company. ;)
If there's a reason to believe customers of your app will be unusually prone
to adjusting their resolution during their session with your app (that rules
out most Win users since most of the ones I've supported have never seen
their Display control panel <g>), polling on one-second intervals should
cover what you need without a noticeable decrease in performance.
In fact, it turns out to be barely measureable: to respond to a message and
check the screenRect takes about 0.037ms on my old 500MHz G4 (testing script
copied below).
While you're at it, it might be useful to Bugzilla an enhancement request
for a new resolutionChanged message.
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on mouseUp global gSaveScreenRect put the screenRect into gSaveScreenRect put 1000 into n put the millisecs into t -- repeat n send "checkResolution" to me end repeat -- put (the millisecs - t ) / n end mouseUp
on checkResolution global gSaveScreenRect if the screenrect<> gSaveScreenRect then answer "it changed" end if end checkResolution
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