Screen('Resolution')

Psychtoolbox › Screen.{mex*,dll} subfunction

Query or change display settings for screen "screenNumber".
Returns a struct "oldResolutions" with the current settings for screen
resolution, refresh rate and pixel depth. Optionally sets new settings for
screen resolution "newwidth" x "newheight", refresh rate "newHz" and framebuffer
pixel depth "newPixelSize". Providing invalid or incompatible settings will
raise an error. Especially the color depth "newPixelSize" should usually not be
set to anything else than its default of 32 bpp or 24 bpp. Other settings can
impair alpha-blending on some systems, a setting of 16 bpp will disable
alpha-blending and create drastically reduced color resolution of 5 bits per
color channel. A setting of 8 bpp is not supported at all on MacOS/X and will
create artifacts on all other systems. Use a size of 32 bpp even for clut
animation. This function may not work on all MS-Windows setups, your mileage may
vary...
On Linux the function only switches display settings in the conventional sense
on a single-display setup. On a multi-display setup, this function only changes
the total size of the framebuffer, ie., 'newwidth' and 'newheight', the other
parameters are silently ignored. On Linux, the video settings of each individual
display, e.g., resolution, video refresh rate, panning, are queried and changed
via the Screen('ConfigureDisplay') function instead. This allows for much more
flexibility, e.g., you can have a framebuffer bigger than the combined
resolution of all displays and only show a fraction of it. You can change the
relative position of all physical displays, configure "mirror modes", "side by
side", or "on top of each other" display configurations.
Psychtoolbox will automatically restore the systems display resolution to the
system settings made via the display control panel as soon as either your script
finishes by closing all its windows, or by some error. Terminating Matlab due to
quit command will also restore the system preference settings. On a
multi-display Linux setup, display settings are never automatically restored.
If you call this command without ever opening onscreen windows and closing them
at some point, Psychtoolbox will not restore display settings automatically.
You can query a list of all supported combinations of display settings via the
Screen('Resolutions') command. "specialMode" is a flag you must not touch,
unless you really know what you're doing, that's why we don't tell you its
purpose.

###See also: Screen('Resolutions')