Monitor SetMonitorDisplayAreaPosition Function 

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SetMonitorDisplayAreaPosition Function

Sets the horizontal or vertical position of a monitor's display area.

Increasing the horizontal position moves the display area toward the right side of the screen; decreasing it moves the display area toward the left. Increasing the vertical position moves the display area toward the top of the screen; decreasing it moves the display area toward the bottom.

Syntax

  BOOL SetMonitorDisplayAreaPosition(
  HANDLE
    hMonitor,

    MC_POSITION_TYPE
    ptPositionType,

    DWORD
    dwNewPosition

  );

Parameters

hMonitor

[in]  Handle to a physical monitor. To get the monitor handle, call GetPhysicalMonitorsFromHMONITOR or GetPhysicalMonitorsFromIDirect3DDevice9.

ptPositionType

[in]  A member of the MC_POSITION_TYPE enumeration, specifying whether to set the horizontal position or the vertical position.

dwNewPosition

[in]  Horizontal or vertical position. To get the minimum and maximum position, call GetMonitorDisplayAreaPosition.

Return Value

If the function succeeds, the return value is TRUE. If the function fails, the return value is FALSE. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

If this function is supported, the GetMonitorCapabilities function returns the MC_CAPS_DISPLAY_AREA_POSITION flag.

This function takes about 50 milliseconds to return.

The horizontal and vertical position are continuous monitor settings. For more information, see Using the High-Level Monitor Configuration Functions.

Requirements

Client: Requires Windows Vista.

Header: Include HighLevelMonitorConfigurationAPI.h.

Library: Use dxva2.lib.

See Also

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