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    Monitors DAT

    Summary

    The Monitors DAT is a table of data about all currently detected monitors with information on the resolution, screen positioning, monitor name and description, GPU, and a flag indicating whether it is a primary monitor or not.

    You can also set it to display the overall bounds of all the detected monitors.

    It runs a callback script when a change in the monitors has been detected. These changes can be that a monitor was plugged in, a monitor was unplugged, the resolution of a monitor has changed, or the primary monitor has changed.

    The Monitor DAT returns top/bottom values in lower-left origin coordinates, (0,0) is the lower-left corner of the monitor.

    PythonIcon.pngmonitorsDAT_Class


    Parameters - Monitors Page

    Callbacks DAT callbacks - Runs this script once for each change to the table (ie. monitor state change). See monitorsDAT_Class for usage.

    Bounds bounds - While on, an additional "bounds" row will be added to the table. The dimensions correspond to a bounding box around all the detected monitors. In this row, "primary" refers to the index in the table of the primary monitor.

    Monitors monitors - ⊞ - Specify which monitors to report information about.
    • All all -
    • Primary primary -
    • Non-Primary nonprimary -
    • Affinity affinity -
    • None none -

    Units units - ⊞ - Specify if the numbers are reported in Native Pixel units or DPI Scaled units.
    • Native native -
    • DPI Scaled dpiscaled -


    Parameters - Common Page

    Language language - ⊞ - Select how the DAT decides which script language to operate on.
    • Input input - The DAT uses the inputs script language.
    • Node node - The DAT uses it's own script language.

    Edit/View Extension extension - ⊞ - Select the file extension this DAT should expose to external editors.
    • dat dat - various common file extensions.
    • From Language language - pick extension from DATs script language.
    • Custom Extension custom - Specify a custom extension.

    Custom Extension customext - Specifiy the custom extension.

    Word Wrap wordwrap - ⊞ - Enable Word Wrap for Node Display.
    • Input input - The DAT uses the inputs setting.
    • On on - Turn on Word Wrap.
    • Off off - Turn off Word Wrap.


    Info CHOP Channels

    Extra Information for the Monitors DAT can be accessed via an Info CHOP.

    Common DAT Info Channels

    • num_rows - Number of rows in this DAT.
    • num_cols - Number of columns in this DAT.

    Common Operator Info Channels

    • total_cooks - Number of times the operator has cooked since the process started.
    • cook_time - Duration of the last cook in milliseconds.
    • cook_frame - Frame number when this operator was last cooked relative to the component timeline.
    • cook_abs_frame - Frame number when this operator was last cooked relative to the absolute time.
    • cook_start_time - Time in milliseconds at which the operator started cooking in the frame it was cooked.
    • cook_end_time - Time in milliseconds at which the operator finished cooking in the frame it was cooked.
    • cooked_this_frame - 1 if operator was cooked this frame.
    • warnings - Number of warnings in this operator if any.
    • errors - Number of errors in this operator if any.


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