Getting desktop colour depth

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Boiled Sweets
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Here I go again answering my own questions. Another way...

bank = CreateBank(4)
API_CopyMemoryPntrAddr bank,FrontBuffer() + 100,4
depth = PeekInt(bank,0)
FreeBank bank

and userlib adjustment:

lib "kernel32.dll"
API_CopyMemoryPntrAddr%(Destination*,Source%,Length%) : "RtlMoveMemory"