{"id":3404,"date":"2011-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theill.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/how-to-get-display-name-from-nsscreen\/"},"modified":"2011-01-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T22:00:00","slug":"how-to-get-display-name-from-nsscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theill.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/14\/how-to-get-display-name-from-nsscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get display name from NSScreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working on <a href=\"http:\/\/wallpaperyapp.com\/\">Wallpapery<\/a> I needed to get a given screens display name. There is no &#8220;displayName&#8221; method on NSScreen so I added a category to provide this functionality. Seems like others are looking for this too so I&#8217;m posting my code below.<\/p>\n<h4>NSScreen+DisplayName.h<\/h4>\n<pre><code>#import <Cocoa\/Cocoa.h>\n\n@interface NSScreen (DisplayName)\n\n- (NSString *)displayName;\n\n@end\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h4>NSScreen+DisplayName.m<\/h4>\n<pre><code>#import <IOKit\/graphics\/IOGraphicsLib.h>\n#import \"NSScreen+DisplayName.h\"\n\n@implementation NSScreen (DisplayName)\n\n- (NSString *)displayName {\n    NSString *screenName = nil;\n\n    io_service_t framebuffer = CGDisplayIOServicePort([[[self deviceDescription] objectForKey:@\"NSScreenNumber\"] unsignedIntValue]);\n    NSDictionary *deviceInfo = (NSDictionary *)IODisplayCreateInfoDictionary(framebuffer, kIODisplayOnlyPreferredName);\n    NSDictionary *localizedNames = [deviceInfo objectForKey:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:kDisplayProductName]];\n\n    if ([localizedNames count] > 0) {\n        screenName = [[localizedNames objectForKey:[[localizedNames allKeys] objectAtIndex:0]] retain];\n    }\n    else {\n        screenName = @\"Unknown\";\n    }\n\n    [deviceInfo release];\n    return [screenName autorelease];    \n}\n\n@end\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You need to include the IOKit framework in your project.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working on Wallpapery I needed to get a given screens display name. There is no &#8220;displayName&#8221; method on NSScreen so I added a category to provide this functionality. Seems like others are looking for this too so I&#8217;m posting my code below. 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