On Tue, 5 Sep 2023, Zbigniew wrote:
You keep avoiding the question. WHICH SCREEN?
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so will you answer the question - what screen do you mean? as i mentioned
before. i think you have a far too basic view of screen and i'm trying to
paint just a few of the possible scenarios to have you think about this.
this discussion is going nowhere otherwise.
I've got a feeling you are trying to dilute this exchange by
artificially introducing conceptual confusion. Just as Pilate asked:
„but what exactly is truth?” — you keep asking: „which actually
screen?”.
To help you see our point of view, imagine someone complaining to you that
even though the computer science course talked about trees and leaves
there were no actual trees anywhere in sight, and how exactly does that
help with CO2 emissions ?
Display and Screen structures are abstractions that in some cases
correspond to physical devices and in some cases (many more cases
nowadays) do not. They are named "Display" and "Screen" but what they
actually are is determined by how the code actually works.
To properly use them you need to read the documentation and
source code.
If you need to find out parameters of physical devices attached to your
computer you need to use the tools that can handle the complexity of the
setup.
The functions you are looking at clearly cannot do it, so the first thing
you should have done is looked around for alternatives and open source
code that have done something similar to what you want to do.
best
Vladimir Dergachev
