how to get destop dimension

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ereuseen - 13 Aug 2007 17:07 GMT

I know, Java is platform-independent, and desktop isn't present in all
system, so this what i want to do isn't proper in Java. But I assume, that
my aplication will be run on some window system. So, is it possible to get
width and height of system desktop?

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Eric Sosman - 13 Aug 2007 17:18 GMT

ereuseen wrote On 08/13/07 12:07,:

> I know, Java is platform-independent, and desktop isn't present in all
> system, so this what i want to do isn't proper in Java. But I assume, that
> my aplication will be run on some window system. So, is it possible to get
> width and height of system desktop?

See the java.awt.Toolkit class.

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Roedy Green - 14 Aug 2007 03:10 GMT

>I know, Java is platform-independent, and desktop isn't present in all
>system, so this what i want to do isn't proper in Java. But I assume, that
>my aplication will be run on some window system. So, is it possible to get
>width and height of system desktop?

see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/coordinates.html#SCREENSIZE

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