Hmm.. I guess I will have to see if there is another way, as none of the 
modes work for me. It could be it is an outdated toolbox.

In a message dated 1/17/01 2:54:12 PM, heatherd@... writes:

>At 3:31 PM -0500 on 1/17/01, MattBeedle@... wrote:
>
>
>>Interesting, my monitor flashes it the depthMode doesn't change for me,
>I
>>tried all of the different values too!
>
>I doubt their is anything wrong with anyone's code but I tried 
>running the following code on my iMac and it set the depth mode for 
>each constant I tried.  It changed it between 256, 1000, and Millions 
>but that's all.  In some cases though, there was no change in screen 
>depth and the function still returned whatever I fed it.
>
>Inside Mac say to use DMCheckDisplayMode to see if modes and pixels 
>depths are  are supported.
>
>Try running this code from the FB^3 Lite runtime:
>
>_kFirstVidMode =  128
>_kSecondVidMode = 129
>_kThirdVidMode =  130
>_kFourthVidMode = 131
>_kFifthVidMode =  132
>_kSixthVidMode =  133
>
>
>TOOLBOX FN DMSetDisplayMode (LONG,LONG,LONG,LONG,HANDLE) = WORD
>
>CLEAR LOCAL
>DIM @deviceHndl AS HANDLE // A handle to our main device
>DIM @pixDepth AS LONG
>Dim err AS WORD
>LOCAL FN ChangeResolutionTest(inPixDepth AS LONG)
>pixDepth = inPixDepth
>deviceHndl = FN GETMAINDEVICE
>err = FN DMSetDisplayMode (deviceHndl, 0, @pixDepth, 0, 0)
>END FN = pixDepth
>
>Dim setScreenMode AS LONG
>Dim requestedMode as Long
>
>print "Enter desired screen mode"
>
>print " FirstVidMode =  128"
>print " SecondVidMode = 129"
>print " ThirdVidMode =  130"
>print " FourthVidMode = 131"
>print " FifthVidMode =  132"
>print " SixthVidMode =  133"
>print
>Input "Enter number of screen mode: ";requestedMode
>
>setScreenMode = FN ChangeResolutionTest(requestedMode)
>
>print "Attempted screen mode: ";requestedMode
>print "Set screen mode: ";setScreenMode


Best,

Matthew Beedle
Foxchange Software
http://www.foxchange.com