I am trying this on both a laptop with a widescreen monitor and my desktop with a 4:3 monitor. No matter what resolution I set my desktop to, 3DGS always returns 1280 and 1024 for the sys_metrics(0) and sys_metrics(1) values respectively.

Am I missing something? Aren't these variable supposed to return the current desktop resolution's width and height? Even if I set my desktop to 800x600, it still shows 1280x1024 in 3DGS.

Hopefully I've missed something crucial that will be easy enough to put in, because this has ground today's coding to a halt.

i tried this on my system. and i do get proper values. when i change my screen resolution. i go get a change in the values.

can u post ur code .. maybe something missing somewhere.

Then I call get_Desktop(); in the code. No matter what I set my desktop resolution to the panel always says it's 1280x1024.

i dont find any problem with this. it should be running fine. the variables "theDesktopWidth" and "theDesktopHeight" are declared global ?

Without it being declared as global, it'd return 0.

I've tested your code and have it working on mine, are you sure that your pc isn't set up for 2 monitors, and it's reading the values of monitor 1 though it doesn't exist?

It's the only think I can think of

I only have the one monitor and I checked my card settings to verify that it's not seeing two.

I made a completely new project to test this out and it's still not giving the results I would expect. This time it does actually change the results it gives, but they are off. For instance, if I set the desktop to 800x600 or 1024x768, it shows 640x480 on the panel. If I set the desktop to 1152x864 or even 1280x1024, it shows 1024x768 on the panel. In other words, even in this completely new project it's not giving the expected readings.

Here is the project, zipped up, if anyone wants to take a look and see what I'm doing wrong. - http://www.jaknine.com/3dgs/test.zip

Thanks for the help.

hi.. i hv fixed ur error. check ur mail. i sent the fixed code to ur mail.

u should note something. do u need the desktop resolution or the game resolution ? they are different. and the game resolution is set by the video_mode in your display00.wdl.

the desktop resolution can be any resolution but when u using video_mode, it sets the game at that resolution.

1 - 320x200
2 - 320x240
3 - 320x400
4 - 400x300
5 - 512x384
6 - 640x480 - (default mode)
7 - 800x600
8 - 1024x768
9 - 1280x1024
10 - 1400x1050
11 - 1600x1200

U can set the video_mode to any resolution u want at the beginning of the game or use "video_switch" to switch between resolution after the device has been opened.

Wow, thank you so much Delinkx. I got your email, applied the changes, and now everything works perfectly. I thought I was losing my mind, heh. Much appreciated.

enjoy