applications supporting both CRT and LCD

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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
 
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
 
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