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Need another Built-in variable?

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bobgrosh
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Need another Built-in variable?

Post by bobgrosh »

#SCREENAREAWIDTH# and #WORKAREAWIDTH# are fine if you are only concerned about the visible width, but what if you don't know if the skin is going to be run a dual, triple, or quad width screen?

For example:

I'm writing a skin to control the virtual desktop manage, Dexpot.
Dexpot saves current thumbnails of the various virtual screens. But, It only saves a thumbnail of the primary monitor. When I go to position these on the skin, I need to know the height and width of the primary monitor, but the built in variables return 2,3 or 4 times that number depending on the number of monitors and how they are arraigned (horizontally, vertically, or in a rectangle), and there is no way in Rainmeter (that I know of) to find out how many monitors there are or how they are arraigned.

Any suggestions?