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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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> "Graham Thompson" <gct@faGUESS-WHAT-TO-DO-WITH-THISsl.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:41c13f6a@newsgroups.borland.com...
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> You did not set the DEVMODE's dmPosition member.  Since you left the
> dmPosition at its original value, you are not actually changing the
> monitor's settings at all.  The dmFields member also needs the
DM_PELSWIDTH
> and DM_PELSHEIGHT flags in order to use the dmPelsWidth/Height members.
>
>     dm.dmFields = DM_POSITION | DM_PELSWIDTH | DM_PELSHEIGHT;
>     dm.dmPosition.x = 0;
>     dm.dmPosition.y = 0;
>     dm.dmPelsWidth = 0;
>     dm.dmPelsHeight = 0;

As usual, you got it Remy. My fault for taking the MSDN literally!

And just in case anyone else is watching this for the answer, note that the
ChangeDisplaySettingsEx call also needs'CDS_GLOBAL | CDS_UPDATEREGISTRY as
its dwFlags parameter for the change to be permanent instead of 'fleeting'.

Thanks once again,

GT.