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ScreenDpiX Property

Summary

Gets or sets the current screen horizontal resolution in dots per inch (or DPI).

Syntax

Java

Objective-C

WinRT C#

public double ScreenDpiX {get; set;}

Public Property ScreenDpiX As Double

public double ScreenDpiX {get; set;}

@property (nonatomic, assign) NSUInteger screenDpiX

public int getScreenDpiX() 
public void setScreenDpiX(int screenDpiX)

get_ScreenDpiX(); 
set_ScreenDpiX(value); 
Object.defineProperty('ScreenDpiX');

Property Value

The current screen horizontal resolution in dots per inch (or DPI). A value of 0 means use the default screen resolution which 96. The default value is 0.

Remarks

Changing the value of this property will fire the PropertyChanged and TransformChanged events.

The physical resolution of an image is measured in dots per inch (DPI). The values of ImageDpiX, ImageDpiY, ScreenDpiX and ScreenDpiY are used when calculating how to display the image if the value of UseDpi is set to true.

For example, a typical A4 document image is 8.5 by 11 inches. Which could be 2550 by 3300 pixels if the image has a resolution of 300 by 300. Most document viewer applications will try to display this image in its original size. i.e. the image will take 8.5 inches of screen horizontal space and 11 inches of screen vertical space. Without using the UseDpi property of this control, you are required to do the calculations yourself as follows:

viewer.UseDpi = false; 
viewer.ScaleFactor = screenResolution / imageResolution;

In the case of the image above, this will be 96 (typical screen resolution) divided by 300. Or, you can set the UseDpi value to true and the control will use the above formula internally keeping the ScaleFactor set to 1 as follows:

viewer.UseDpi = true; 
viewer.ScaleFactor = 1;

The viewer will not automatically set the values of ImageDpiX, ImageDpiY, ScreenDpiX and ScreenDpiY to the current image and screen resolution, instead, these values will all be set to the default value of 96. You must set these values to the correct values for UseDpi to be used correctly.

When UseDpi is set to false, the values of ImageSize and RealImageSize will be the same (the size of the image in pixels). When UseDpi is set to true, the values of ImageSize and RealImageSize might not be the same as the image or screen DPI. ImageSize will have the original size in pixels while RealImageSize will contain the size multiplied by a ratio between screen and image sizes.