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# compose-desktop

[Animesh Sahu]

is using java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().screenSize the correct way to obtain current screen dimensions?
If yes, how'd ya obtain it in K/N in the future? Otherwise what's the correct way...

[Igor Demin]

Because we can have multiple monitors, the correct way would be something like this:

AppWindowAmbient.current!!.window.graphicsConfiguration.device.displayMode.width

And we also need to listen changes of the screen size:

@Composable
private fun screenSize(): IntSize {
    val window = AppWindowAmbient.current!!.window
    var size by remember {
        mutableStateOf(
            IntSize(
                window.graphicsConfiguration.device.displayMode.width,
                window.graphicsConfiguration.device.displayMode.height,
            )
        )
    }

    onActive {
        val listener = AWTEventListener {
            size = IntSize(
                window.graphicsConfiguration.device.displayMode.width,
                window.graphicsConfiguration.device.displayMode.height,
            )
        }
        Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(listener, AWTEvent.PAINT_EVENT_MASK)

        onDispose {
            Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().removeAWTEventListener(listener)
        }
    }

    return size
}

(listener code is from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7455283/detect-screen-resolution-change-made-by-user-java-listener/13704277)

In K/N it will be in a completely different way 🙂 .
Maybe it is worth to provide a common API for this in the future.

[Animesh Sahu]

@Igor Demin In this case, the function is composable, so I cannot call it from other scope. I wanted to set the size of the primary window from the top-level function (main) in some sort of percentage of whole screen size...

[Igor Demin]

In that case we can try this:

import androidx.compose.desktop.AppWindow
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater

fun main() = invokeLater {
    val window = AppWindow()
    val dpi = graphicsConfiguration.defaultTransform.scaleX.toFloat()
    val width = (graphicsConfiguration.device.displayMode.width / dpi).toInt()
    window.setSize(width / 3, 100)
    window.setWindowCentered()
    window.show {
        // Composable content
    }
}