How to read Monitor/display name

[CSwanepoel]

I need to get the names of the monitors/displays plugged in.

E.g. Samsung XXXX, HP XXXX or Dell XXXX

QDesktopWidget only return the basic information and I couldn't find anything on the web that could help me.

desktop()->screen(0)->accessibleName() returns an empty string.

Is there anyway of getting the monitor/display names by usint QT?

Kind regards

[ChrisW67]

Through platform dependent APIs to query the monitor EDID I would imagine.

On Windows the information can be accessed with VBScript so it should be fairly easy to get at: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/dispedid_vbs.txt
On Linux you could look at how read-edid does it: http://www.polypux.org/projects/read-edid/

[CSwanepoel]

Thanks Chris,

I really hoped it would not be needed for me to call OS dependent API's.

So far it looked like your option is the only one I guess

Regards