Hi all,

I need to know how to determine the current system color setting (e.g.,
256, 65K, High Color, True Color, etc.) and change it if necessary.  This
needs to work for Windows 3.x and 95/NT; I'm using VB3.0 Pro.  I have the
MS SDK (books, CD's, etc.) but can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

I've add liminted success with the following code.  Win95 is fine, but
Win3.x causes all kinds of problems (graphics tend to start appearing at
location 0,0 of the screen!).  I haven't worked out the latter, but if you
get a better solution or fix this one, please let me know!

    Const PLANES = 14
    Const BITSPIXEL = 12
    hDC = GetWindowDC(hWndSrc) ' Get device context for entire window
    ScreenColorDepth = GetDeviceCaps(hDC, PLANES) * 2 ^ GetDeviceCaps(hDC,
BITSPIXEL)

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