delphiscreenpower-off

turning pixels off


got a question about turning pixels off on a screen. I can make a black image and show it full screen on my pc. Yet the screen looks black but the pixels aren't off. You can see the difference between an off screen and a black screen.

I am wordering if it would be possible to turn these pixels off via a program or is the best you can do: make them black?

I am looking for the delphi code to turn off the right half of my computer screen?

hope its clear!

thx


Solution

  • You can't turn off individual pixels, or parts of the screen. Either the screen is on or it's off.

    This works a bit differently depending on what kind of screen it is, but nowadays LCD screens is the most common kind. An LCD screen has a backlight behind an LCD display; the backlight is always on, and shine through the LCD display when the crystals are transparent. Pixels are made black by making the crystals non-transparent, however they still let a fraction of the back light through. To make pixels completely black you would have to turn the backlight off, and you can only to that for the entire screen.