applications supporting both CRT and LCD

[Clare s Wheeler]

Hi

I have a Windows Applications written in C#. End users of the application
may have either CRT or LCD monitors.

I would like to display some very light shades of colour. However the
colours look different on a LCD & a CRT monitor. Light colours look darker
on a CRT monitor & very light colours hardly even show on a LCD monitor.

Is there anyway to determine what type of Monitor a computer is running?
That way I could alter the colours depending on the monitor type - and
ultimately have my application look very similar regardless of monitor type.

Thanks
Clare

 

[Martin Robins]

Just gessing here, but WMI may help.

 

[Jerry III]

The problem with this approach is that you "tweak" your app and it will not
look right for users who actually setup their display (be it CRT or LCD)
properly. I think you should concentrate on teaching your users to adjust
their brightness and contrast to proper values, there's quite a lot of tools
to help them, NokiaTest.exe is just one of them.

Jerry