Screen Brightness

[madi L]

Hi,

does some one know how we can get the brightness of the screen under Window OS? Really, until now I cant not find any thing interesting.

Thanks for your helps?

[Disch]

I don't think it's possible.

Seems to be a monitor hardware setting and not something you'd set through software (to adjust it you have to press buttons on the monitor -- you don't do it through Windows).

Then again I wouldn't be surprised if it was possible. I don't have the foggiest idea of how to do it though.

[madi L]

Some one suggest me to see the DirectX and OpenGL, but I have not any idea about that.

[sahzz]

I think this can help

http://www.nirsoft.net/vc/change_screen_brightness.html

[Disch]

Well there you go!

I guess I should know better than to think something's not possible ;P

[madi L]

Thanks for the link, but I already saw it before.

I'm beginner in Windows programming, so I can change the brightness with setBrighness, but I can't get it.

Do you think that it is possible to create a function getBrithness for this purpose?

Thanks in advance.

[sahzz]

I don’t think this is supported on all monitors like Disch said,
But if you are looking a way for only LCD backlights on laptops and tablets,
You can look to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372703(v=VS.85).aspx

You can make the function but it will not give you the Brightness only the average Color gamma