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Dear Experts,

One of my VB Application needs
screen resolution 1024x768 pixels.
It is 800x600 pixels by default.

After exiting the program I have to
change it to 800X600 pixels.

How can I change screen resolution
at VB-runtime?

Srin

mdougan

I'm not sure that there is a way to do that programatically, but even if there is, I do not recommend that you do so. Some computers may not be able to handle that resolution, that is why when you switch between resolutions, the display driver forces you to "test" the new resolution.

You might switch someone into that mode, and then they can't see anything on their computer screen, and then they can't switch themselves back to another resolution (and they might not know what your program did, so they don't even know where to begin).

There are two things that you could do that would be good design choices. First, you could redesign the application to fit 800X600. This is a safe resolution to develop for.

If this is not possible, you can check to see what resolution they are in, and if they are not in 1024X768 you can display a message to the user that the application requires this display mode, and then don't let them run the application until they manually set the mode themselves.

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Thank you deighton,
It works fine.

Srin