From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: display-mm-width return value off on Windows
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:05:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AE4E03.7080009@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u4pxtr9y8.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>
>> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:56:31 +0200
>>
>> * Eli Zaretskii (2006-07-06) writes:
>>
>>
>>>> From: Ralf Angeli <angeli@caeruleus.net>
>>>>
>>>> display-mm-* display-mm-*
>>>> Real size without patch with patch
>>>> Width 330mm 320 305
>>>> Height 207mm 240 203
>>>>
>>> That is still not a very good approximation, is it?
>>>
>> The values are more accurate than before.
>>
>
> Not enough, if you ask me.
>
> Do you have some unusual settings for the display, or maybe an unusual
> display configuration (like more than a single monitor)? Maybe that
> is the reason why you get skewed numbers; as you see from my other
> mail, on my system I get very good results with the current code.
>
I did some googling. I believe the answer here is interesting:
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=getdevicecaps+%22inches%2C+milimeters%22
James (who seems to be from MS) says that the device driver may return
faulty results. So why not stay with the simple supported way (ie
HORZSIZE etc)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-07 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-06 17:50 display-mm-width return value off on Windows Ralf Angeli
2006-07-06 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-06 21:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-07 5:56 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-07 10:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-07 12:05 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-07-07 16:54 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-08 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-08 13:23 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-08 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-08 21:27 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-08 22:23 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-08 23:03 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-09 7:36 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-09 8:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-09 7:41 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-09 8:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-09 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-10 10:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-10 10:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 13:29 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-10 14:19 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 21:28 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-10 22:05 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-10 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-10 23:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-10 23:22 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-11 18:43 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-12 13:07 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-07-12 19:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-13 19:38 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-13 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-14 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-14 18:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-14 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2006-07-14 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-07-15 22:06 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-16 17:04 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-14 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-09 9:31 ` Jan Djärv
2006-07-08 17:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-07-06 22:09 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-06 22:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 5:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-07-07 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-05 14:50 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 15:15 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 15:37 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-19 16:31 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-19 17:54 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-19 22:34 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-20 8:19 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-21 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 9:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 10:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 10:36 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-21 11:45 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-21 11:55 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-21 10:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-21 15:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 19:22 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-21 23:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-22 5:57 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 19:16 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 21:38 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-23 18:31 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-23 22:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-24 16:14 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-24 20:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-25 16:38 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-25 22:28 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-21 23:25 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-22 5:51 ` Ralf Angeli
2006-08-22 7:46 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-22 19:24 ` Ralf Angeli
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2006-07-14 23:55 Robert J. Chassell
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