Re: Display Colors
Re: Display Colors
- Subject: Re: Display Colors
- From: Johnny AppleScript <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:54:04 -0600
Whoops! That had a couple of confusing lines! Sorry; try this:
-- if you don't mind installing cscreen (free), it really is a nice way of
scripting monitor settings, especially with multiple displays; setting your
primary or single display to 256 colors is as simple as this:
set screenCommand to "/path/to/parentfolder/cscreen -d 8"
do shell script screenCommand
-- setting it back to thousands or millions requires only changing the last
digit:
set screenCommand to "/path/to/parentfolder/cscreen -d 32"
do shell script screenCommand
-- It's only a few lines lines more to determine the current setting, and
switch between the two automatically. If you have multiple displays, you
will need to specify the display index for the target display, but note that
there's a little hidden trick that display index ID 1 is actually specified
by 0, index 2, by 1, index 3 by 2, etc., when using multiples and
getting/setting data
set screenInfoCommand to "/path/to/parentfolder/cscreen -l"
Set sInfo to do shell script screenInfoCommand
sInfo --look for the output in Event Log or Result History
--finally, you can figure out the rest of your options and syntax, such as
changing resolutions or refresh rates thusly:
set screenHelpCommand to "/path/to/parentfolder/cscreen -h"
Set sHelp to do shell script screenHelpCommand
sHelp --look for the output in Event Log or Result History
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