Method to get screen size?

SDL Development
1

Hi everyone,
is there any “hidden” function / variable in SDL I can use to retrieve the
screen size?
Many thanks in advance.

2

Hello,

you could retrieve the width and height from the primary SDL_Surface (in
other words, the one you used for creating the window or full screen
buffer).

More information :

http://sdldoc.csn.ul.ie/sdlsurface.php

With kind regards,

Niels Wagenaar

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Van: sebh [mailto:sebh at gmx.de]
Verzonden: maandag 7 april 2003 15:04
Aan: sdl
Onderwerp: [SDL] Method to get screen size?

Hi everyone,
is there any “hidden” function / variable in SDL I can use to retrieve
the
screen size?
Many thanks in advance._______________________________________________
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3

is there any “hidden” function / variable in SDL I can use to retrieve
the
screen size?

Your screen is a normal SDL_Surface, so for example, if “screen” is the
name of your pointer:

width = screen->w;
height = screen->h;

Look in the documentation for more information about the SDL_Surface
structure.

–Joe

4

Sorry, I should be more precise. I don’t want to get the screen size of my
window / full screen buffer. I want to get the screen size of the desktop.> ----- Original Message -----

From: joseph@mansefield.net (Joseph Humfrey)
Newsgroups: loki.open-source.sdl
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Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] Method to get screen size?

is there any “hidden” function / variable in SDL I can use to retrieve
the
screen size?

Your screen is a normal SDL_Surface, so for example, if “screen” is the
name of your pointer:

width = screen->w;
height = screen->h;

Look in the documentation for more information about the SDL_Surface
structure.

–Joe

5

sdl doesnt support getting the size of the desktop. if you want to do that,
you’ll have to use some of your own, OS-specific code, or find someone
else’s, but either way, it’s not going to be cross-platform

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