>I've seen this question many times here. Maybe you can add it as a new FAQ... if you have time. Thanks.
>
Actually, after doing this, I noticed that George Tasker already has a FAQ entry that covers this (from a FoxTools perspective) in Win32 and Other APIs. George's code is actually a bit better, since it takes into account color planes, and returns the number of colors available in the pallette as an integer, rather than just the number of bits per pixel.
>Vlad
>
>>You need several API calls:
>>
>>
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 hDC
>>#DEFINE BITSPIXEL 12
>>LOCAL nDC, nBitsPerPixel
>>nDC = GetDC(GetActiveWindow())
>>nBitsPerPixel = GetDeviceCaps(nDC, BITSPIXEL)
>>=ReleaseDC(nDC)
>>
>>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.
