Microsoft KB Archive/42322

= Screen Width and Height for Macintosh Plus, SE, and II =

Article ID: 42322

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006



This article was previously published under Q42322



SUMMARY
The following is a summary of the screen widths and heights (measured in pixels) for Apple Macintosh screens:   Computer                       Width           Height

Macintosh Plus and SE         512             342 Macintosh II                  640             480 In QuickBASIC the SYSTEM(5) function returns the screen width, and SYSTEM(6) returns the screen height of the machine on which a program is running. These functions should be used to make applications portable, as opposed to hard-coding the above values into a program. This function is documented starting on Page 323 of &quot;Microsoft QuickBASIC for Apple Macintosh: Language Reference.&quot;



MORE INFORMATION
The term &quot;resolution&quot; is not standard terminology for Macintosh literature. The terms &quot;width&quot; and &quot;height&quot; are more common. The Macintosh II screen has the same resolution as VGA SCREEN modes 11 and 12 in QuickBASIC for MS-DOS, which are the highest resolutions possible for QuickBASIC for MS-DOS.

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