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Multiple Display Monitors
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GetMonitorInfo
MonitorFromWindow
Code examples:
How to adjust monitor brightness (Vista, monitor with DDC support)
How to change display settings: screen resolution, screen refresh rate
How to detect if additional monitor is connected and active
MonitorFromWindow
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Retrieves a handle to the display monitor that has the largest area of intersection with the bounding rectangle of a specified window.
Code examples:
How to change display settings: screen resolution, screen refresh rate
How to detect if additional monitor is connected and active
How to adjust monitor brightness (Vista, monitor with DDC support)
Declaration:
 
HMONITOR MonitorFromWindow(
  HWND hwnd,       // handle to a window 
  DWORD dwFlags    // determine return value 
);
 
FoxPro declaration:
 
DECLARE INTEGER MonitorFromWindow IN user32;
    INTEGER hWindow,;
    INTEGER dwFlags
 
 
Parameters:
hwnd
[in] Handle to the window of interest.

dwFlags
[in] Determines the function"s return value if the window does not intersect any display monitor.
Return value:
If the window intersects one or more display monitor rectangles, the return value is an HMONITOR handle to the display monitor that has the largest area of intersection with the window.
My comment:
It might be possible that handles to multiple monitors are not random and start with 0x10001 value.

See also GetMonitorInfo, EnumDisplayDevices functions.
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specified window
bounding rectangle
retrieves a handle
display monitor
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User Contributed Notes:
moorthy | 2007-03-28 07:27:15
I'm in need to change my monitor's resolution from my VFP application to run in different resolutioned monitor.
plz give me some idea to make that my mail id follows
   moorthivina@yahoo.co.in

with regards
moorthi
A.M. | 2007-03-28 09:52:34
Moorthy,

There's a link on top of the page to a code sample in VFP "How to change display settings: screen resolution, screen refresh rate".
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