From: Tim <tgaihdc@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T23:35:09+09:00
Subject: Re: wxRuby and getting the display size

Thanks for the help, Alex. I'm trying to get wxRuby2 built on my
system. It seems to be a non-trivial task on a PC system . . .

Tim

Alex Fenton wrote:
> Hi Tim
>
> > Hi, I'm using wxRuby v0.6.0 and am trying to get the size of the
> > display.
>
> I'm pretty sure this functionality isn't available in 0.6.0.
>
> The comprehensive class Wx::SystemSettings is ported in wxruby2 which will get you the screen width & height. There is an example in samples/etc/system_settings.rb of how to use the class, but basically you want something like:
>
> Wx::SystemSettings.get_metric(Wx::SYS_SCREEN_X)
> 
> ugly, I know ;)
> 
> hth
> alex