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From: Rodolfo Frino - Stargate Softwar...
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:46

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Which OS are you running? Some indeces are not supported by NT and Win95
Have a look at the table

"SM_CMONITORS
Number of display monitors on the desktop. See Remarks for more information.
Windows NT, Windows 95:  This value is not supported."

on this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/bas
e/getsystemmetrics.asp

Rodolfo

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Ron Sommer" <summertime@telekom.de> wrote in message
> news:3E6CD208.2090807@telekom.de...
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> > I'm using BCB 5 Prof, and GetSystemMetrics(SM_CMONITORS) returns 1, too.
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> Then you can't blame the VCL for faulty values returned by the API itself.
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> > Maybe the graphics card simulates a single monitor, so
> > that Windows doesn't know there are actually two of them...
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> Possibly.
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> Gambit
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