Thread: Screen Resolution

Hi, I'm new to this forum and was looking for help with an application I'm writing. I have a friend who is partially sighted, he is using NVDA as a text to speech utility (and it's great). He has an issue in that it only works properly when the screen resolution is set to 1024 X 768. He usually has it set to 1920 X 1200. The best solution would obviously be to find a Text to Speech program that works at all resolutions but this is long term, in the short term all he needs is a button which can switch between different screen resolutions. I've built an app which gets all the displaymodes and allows you to choose which ones you want in a cycle and then when you run a script it will jump to the next mode. However, I cannot make the screen mode change within Java. When I set the displaymode all it does is set it within the application's window, I want to set it for the whole system. I've got round it by using (the excellent) Nircmd utility but I would like to control the whole thing from within Java. Is there any way to do it?

Thanks,
Neil

Thanks for the response,
That confirms what I thought, Java can't do it. Frustrating. I've tried diagnosing NVDA but there doesn't seem any way to make it work properly at any resolution other than 1024 X 768. Steadymouse also doesn't work so there is definitely something wierd about the system in question. Anyway, I have worked around the problme by using NIRCMD which seems to work well enough.

Thanks, at least I can stop worrying that I've missed something now!
Neil