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Getting Monitor Specs rates

Asked by Tim Tindell

I am creating programs that run on dual monitor systems. They are for geospatial imaging. One of the monitors is 60 hz and the other is 75. I want to know if there is a function or a way to get the refresh rates of the monitors and set each to different screen regions.

NOTE: I can't change the primary windows screen to always be one or the other. I need to be able to differentiate between the two monitors by there refresh rates.

Please let me know if there is any way to do this.

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Best RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

Have a look at the Java AWT Robot class and the device specific classes around it.

You can use them in Sikuli scripts easily and anyway in Java programs.

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Tim Tindell (tim-tindell) said : 		#2

Thanks RaiMan, that solved my question.

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Tim Tindell (tim-tindell) said : 		#3

So I didn't use Robot. That didn't seem to have what I wanted. I used DisplayMode,GraphicsDevice, and GraphicsEnvironment to get the job done. I wrote it in a definition to be called later. Take a look:

import java.awt.DisplayMode, java.awt.GraphicsDevice, java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment
def getPrimDispAndRef():
    ge=java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment( )
    gs=[ ]
    scr=[ ]
    ref=[ ]
    gs =ge.getScreenDevices()
    a=java.awt.DisplayMode
    for x in range(len(gs)):
        gd=gs[x]
        gw=gd.getIDstring()
        #print gw
        prefix, number = gw.split('y')
        #print number
        d=gd.getDisplayMode()
        num=d.getRefreshRate()
        ref.append(num)
        #print ref
        if number=="0":
            Disp="Primary"
            scr.append(Disp)
        else:
            Disp="Secondary"
            scr.append(Disp)
        print scr[x] + " screen is running at " + repr(ref[x]) + " hz"
    return scr,ref
#It returns two arrays with the displays in one, and the refresh rate in the other.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#4

Exactly :-) Well done :-)

BTW: that's what I meant with "... and the device specific classes around it"