# Detecting the screen resolution: some questions

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-the-screen-resolution-some-questions/14661>\
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**Created:** [March 1, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-the-screen-resolution-some-questions/14661 "2003-03-01T01:11:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cyrus](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/cyrus/32/169_2.png) [@Cyrus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Cyrus)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-the-screen-resolution-some-questions/14661/1 "2003-03-01T01:11:23Z")

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Hi everyone,

Building a Flash Web site. What a nice challenge. Now, I was wondering.

When you visit [www.b7ven.com](http://www.b7ven.com), the pseudo preloader on the first page displays your screen resolution. How do you do that? This must be some dynamic text, but what is the code behind this?

I have found a jack of all trade code here: [http://moock.org/asdg/technotes/echoVersion/](http://moock.org/asdg/technotes/echoVersion/)

But not only that. You will notice that, if you have a low resolution, you will see the word “fail” instead of “ok”. But that does not change anything cause the “enter” button still works and load the main Flash site.

A good practice would have brought you to another site, html perhaps where we can see the content. No? What is your opinion on this subject?

Thanks for your feedback.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-the-screen-resolution-some-questions/14661/2 "2003-03-01T01:38:26Z")

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```auto
System.capabilities.screenResolutionX;
System.capabilities.screenResolutionY;

```

that’s the code 🙂

> What is your opinion on this subject?

that you should always design thinking about every resolution. no matter the resolution being used it should be friendly to the visitor/user/he/her/whatever. =)