I have not done any scripting before and have only fairly recently
started to learn C++ (if that's somewhat relevant.)

Can someone either help me out with this, or direct someplace that may
be a good place to learn it (fairly quickly for this limited application
of it.)  While not that experienced with programming I am proficient
with computers, so I don't need a tutorial for grandmas. Okay, on with
the question:

I am trying to find a way to, in Windows2000, run a script for each user
on a machine so that when they log in the screen resolution will be set
to the preferred resolution, whereas Windows now just keeps the one from
the last user.

Any help with regards to this would be appreciated.  Thank you.

:Adam J. Tolman

This may be a "novice question", but... AFAIK there is no easy answer.  That
is, there is no "screen resolution" object for scripting which addresses
this.

When confronted with a problem such as this, my first impulse is to go to:

    http://www.codehound.com

to "sniff out" (sorry, couldn't resist) a solution.  (CodeHound is an
attempt to index the contents of all the vb sites for searching -- much
better than browsing around on your own).

CodeHound turned up a number of discussions and code for changing screen
resolution at run time, for example:

    http://www.vb-world.net/graphics/screenres/index5.html

and,

    http://vbarchives.hypermart.net/tiparchive/api/Windows001.htm

Unfortunately, these discussions suggest getting at the screen resolution
via api calls, which can be done in script by using "DynaWrap", but that
generally is a messy business (which I wouldn't recommended for novices).

If you are handy with C++, you best solution might be to write up an ocx or
dll in your favorite language, register it, then call it in script using
"CreateObject"

hook-em horns, jw

set screen=ie.document.parentWindow.screen
Msgbox screen.width & "," & screen.height

--
Robert Bradley

I am not a mindreader, so I don't know everything.