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Examples for Visual Basic for Application accessing the Windows API: GetSystemMetrics
GetSystemMetrics can be used to retrieve system metrics and configuration settings.
This example needs the VBA declarations of the Windows API which can be found
here.
option explicit
sub main() ' {
debug.print "Number of display monitors on the desktop: " & GetSystemMetrics(SM_CMONITORS )
debug.print "Width of primary monitor: " & GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN )
debug.print "Height of primary monitor: " & GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN )
debug.print "Slow (low-end) processor: " & GetSystemMetrics(SM_SLOWMACHINE)
end sub ' }