Finding number of monitors

[macmekker]

Hi.

I'm trying out the possibility of using variable number of monitors for a solution (1 or 2). I thought Get(ScreenWidth) or Get(DesktopWidth) would help me, but that gives me just the width of the monitor that holds the window at any time - not the total of all the monitors. So when I place the window on my right screen and run the script it gets width = 1600, and on the left 1280. If it gave me the sum 2880 I could make Filemaker figure out how many monitors each user has... but no.

Anybody who has been through the same out there?

[BrentHedden]

This might be a bit more difficult than meets the eye. There is no way that I'm aware of to determine what the resolution settings are going to be for each individual monitor. You could suppose that all are the same, which 9/10 of the time would be true. There might be a way to determine this using AppleScript, but I wouldn't how to do that. I've set up user-controlled fields that ask what the total monitor resolution is, and how many monitors. Then I base my windows creation calcs off of those fields.