Screen Dimensions in Visual Basic

vba screen-size
Monkeyanator picture Monkeyanator · Oct 21, 2011 · Viewed 16.3k times · Source

How can you access the dimensions of the screen in Visual Basic? I have looked online and it says to use Screen.width and Screen.length, but it doesn't recognize those properties... any tips?

Answer

Boann picture Boann · Oct 21, 2011

In VB you can use Screen.Width and Screen.Height. They're not in VBA but you can use an API call instead. Add these declarations:

Public Declare Function GetSystemMetrics Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal index As Long) As Long
Public Const SM_CXSCREEN = 0
Public Const SM_CYSCREEN = 1

Then use like so:

MsgBox GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN) & "x" & GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN)

Related questions

Is there a way to crack the password on an Excel VBA Project?

I've been asked to update some Excel 2003 macros, but the VBA projects are password protected, and it seems there's a lack of documentation... no-one knows the passwords. Is there a way of removing or cracking the password on a VBA …

Read More
How do I declare a global variable in VBA?

I wrote the following code: Function find_results_idle() Public iRaw As Integer Public iColumn As Integer iRaw = 1 iColumn = 1 And I get the error message: "invalid attribute in Sub or Function" Do you know what I did wrong? I tried …

Read More
How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Microsoft Excel both in-cell and loops

How can I use regular expressions in Excel and take advantage of Excel's powerful grid-like setup for data manipulation? In-cell function to return a matched pattern or replaced value in a string. Sub to loop through a column of data …

Read More