From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on
	ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder1.feed.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!nzpost2.xs4all.net!news.kpn.nl!not-for-mail
From: ldries46 <bertus.dries@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: Different screen parameters
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
References: <5ef1a1cc$0$1475$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl>
 <rcsjgj$6gm$1@dont-email.me> <5ef31d03$0$1441$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl>
 <rcvg6k$4rf$1@dont-email.me> <5ef5a28d$0$1481$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl>
X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.kpn.nl
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:47:40 +0200
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/68.9.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <5ef5a28d$0$1481$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Language: en-GB
Message-ID: <5ef5e05c$0$1196$e4fe514c@news.kpn.nl>
NNTP-Posting-Host: df5367f0.news.kpn.nl
X-Trace: G=ENMxksgl,C=U2FsdGVkX18g46/6IPe/ReJ3AuxkCGrqrQoVAutOnJmRqS3ub2Vl0qKNymfxF5g3gr8K5LzIMAH4OMyOEFgLkbUTSZAFMduEwWx99C00ltQ=
X-Complaints-To: abuse@kpn.nl
Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:59233
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Op 26-6-2020 om 9:23 schreef ldries46:
> Op 24-6-2020 om 14:16 schreef Jeffrey R. Carter:
>> On 6/24/20 11:29 AM, ldries46 wrote:
>>> Op 23-6-2020 om 11:54 schreef Jeffrey R. Carter:
>>>> On 6/23/20 8:31 AM, ldries46 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is:
>>>>> Is there an Ada library that is able to somehow read the maximum 
>>>>> sizes of the screen in pixels so I can firstly maximize my values 
>>>>> for size definition in Gtk.
>>>>
>>>> Gnoga has package Gnoga.Gui.Screen that provides this kind of 
>>>> information.
>>>>
>>> I found the procedures that can possibly give me the correct result 
>>> bit I cannot find an example how tu use them in a Gtk environment. 
>>> especially the value op the type Gnoga.Gui.Window.Window_Type I need
>>
>> Mainly, I was saying that you could use Gnoga if GTKAda doesn't 
>> provide the information you need.
>>
>> These would require you to initialize a Gnoga application:
>>
>> procedure Get_Screen_Size (Height : out Positive; Width : out 
>> Positive) is
>>    Window : Gnoga.Gui.Window.Window_Type;
>> begin -- Get_Screen_Size
>>    Gnoga.Application.Singleton.Initialize (Main_Window => Window);
>>    Height := Gnoga.Gui.Screen.Height (Window);
>>    Width  := Gnoga.Gui.Screen.Width  (Window);
>> end Get_Screen_Size;
>>
>> Possibly you could use this from a GTKAda application.
>>
>> On my system, these functions return a height of 1080 and a width of 
>> 1920.
>>
> It looked nice but in my environment (Gtk) it looks like shooting with 
> a Cannon at a fly.
>
In the meantime I found in the Gtk library (Gdk_Windows, _Display, 
_Screen and _Monitor) some thing that looked promising till the moment 
that I looked them up and the message was that they were depreciated 
from v 3.22 everywhere but in _monitor which is not in the latest 
version I found on AdaCore