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NSScreen

Authors

Scott Christley (scottc@net-community.com)
Gregory John Casamento (borgheron@yahoo.com)

Date: Generated at 2024-11-13 12:52:37 -0500

Copyright: (C) 1996, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Software documentation for the NSScreen class

NSScreen : NSObject

Declared in:

AppKit/NSScreen.h

Availability: OpenStep

Description forthcoming.

Method summary

deepestScreen

+ (NSScreen*) deepestScreen;

Availability: OpenStep

Gets information about the screen with the highest depth (i.e. bits per pixel).

mainScreen

+ (NSScreen*) mainScreen;

Availability: OpenStep

Gets information about the main screen.

resetScreens

+ (void) resetScreens;

Availability: OpenStep

Resets the cached list of screens.

screens

+ (NSArray*) screens;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns an NSArray containing NSScreen instances representing all of the screen devices attached to the computer.

backingScaleFactor

- (CGFloat) backingScaleFactor;

Availability: MacOS-X 10.7.0

Description forthcoming.

depth

- (NSWindowDepth) depth;

Availability: OpenStep

Returns the depth of the screen in bits.

deviceDescription

- (NSDictionary*) deviceDescription;

Availability: OpenStep

This method generates a dictionary containing information about the screen device. The resulting dictionary will have the following entires: NSScreenNumber, NSDeviceSize, NSDeviceResolution, NSDeviceBitsPerSample, NSDeviceColorSpaceName.

frame

- (NSRect) frame;

Availability: OpenStep

The full frame of the screen.

screenNumber

- (int) screenNumber;

Availability: Not in OpenStep/MacOS-X

Returns the screen number

supportedWindowDepths

- (const NSWindowDepth*) supportedWindowDepths;

Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0

Returns the window depths this screen will support.

userSpaceScaleFactor

- (CGFloat) userSpaceScaleFactor;

Availability: MacOS-X 10.4.0

Description forthcoming.

visibleFrame

- (NSRect) visibleFrame;

Availability: MacOS-X 10.0.0

Returns the NSRect representing the visible area of the screen.

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