call an API function from dos

[UrbaneRove]

Hello there,

I was wondering if there was a way to call an API function directly from the DOS prompt.

What I need to return is the screen res as a variable in a batch file and then open the shell commend to control the monitor res depending on the answer.

Opening the shell control for the monitor I am fine with I just need to know how to pull the screen res to a variable. Using the 'GetSystemMetrics32' in the User32.dll

Any ideas or references are greatly appreciated.

Urbane Rove

 

[Temps]

Don't know of a way of doing this (RunDll32 will not work with the Win32 APIs).

However, it's extremely easy to write a simple EXE which does exactly what you want and returns the appropriate value to you cmd/bat file.