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Changing the screen resolution
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Title: Changing the screen resolution
Question: How can I change the screen resolution?
Answer:
To change the screen resolution you can use the following function
which is a wrapper for the Windows API ChangeDisplaySettings. The
function takes the desired width and height as parameters and returns
the return value of ChangeDisplaySettings (see the documentation for
more datails).
function SetScreenResolution(Width, Height: integer): Longint;
var
DeviceMode: TDeviceMode;
begin
with DeviceMode do begin
dmSize := SizeOf(TDeviceMode);
dmPelsWidth := Width;
dmPelsHeight := Height;
dmFields := DM_PELSWIDTH or DM_PELSHEIGHT;
end;
Result := ChangeDisplaySettings(DeviceMode, CDS_UPDATEREGISTRY);
end;
You can use ChangeDisplaySettings to change other properties of the
display like the color depth and the display frequency.
Sample call
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In the following example first we get the current screen resolution
before setting it to 800x600, and then we restore it calling
SetScreenResolution again.
var
OldWidth, OldHeight: integer;
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
OldWidth := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);
OldHeight := GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);
SetScreenResolution(800, 600);
end;
procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
SetScreenResolution(OldWidth, OldHeight);
end;
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