Hi Jarid,

>Is there a function (Win32 most likely) that can be used to return the number of colors in the current Windows Display setting, eg: 256 Colors, 64k Colors, 1.6m colors etc
>
>TIA

some years ago i found this code somewhere here in UT, however I can't remember who wrote it in the first place.

? getBitsPerPixel()

FUNCTION GetBitsPerPixel
	
	* nBitsPerPixel returns the color depth
	* 8 = 256 Color
	* 16 = High Color (64K)
	* 24 or 32 are TrueColor modes. 
	* There are other values; these are the most common ones encountered.
	
	DECLARE INTEGER GetDC IN WIN32API INTEGER hWnd
	DECLARE INTEGER GetActiveWindow IN WIN32API
	DECLARE INTEGER GetDeviceCaps IN WIN32API INTEGER hDC, INTEGER nIndex
	DECLARE INTEGER ReleaseDC IN WIN32API INTEGER hWnd, INTEGER hDC
	#DEFINE BITSPIXEL 12

	LOCAL nDC, nBitsPerPixel
	nDC = GetDC(GetActiveWindow())
	nBitsPerPixel = GetDeviceCaps(nDC, BITSPIXEL)
	=ReleaseDC(GetActiveWindow(),nDC)

	RETURN nBitsPerPixel
ENDFUNC