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  1. Jan 30th, 2004, 09:13 AM #1
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    Unhappy Multiple Monitor Madness... [Resolved] (all by my own, yay!)

    I am making an application which runs on pcs with multiple monitors (dual head etc.)
    Now, I want the user to be able to set on what monitor they want my (fullscreen) application to run. Is there a way to do such a thing? If so, please tell me how.

    Thanx in advance.
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  2. Feb 1st, 2004, 05:35 AM #2
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    I really need some help here. I can't find a thing that works.

    Could this perhaps be done with the screen.cls file?
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  3. Feb 1st, 2004, 08:22 AM #3
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    What type of app is it? Are you using something like DX to do the fullscreen? If so, you may be able to do an emumeration and have DX use the correct one.
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    I would expect that you would have to enumerate the display devices, no matter what solution you use. Most programs deal with the primary display device, and leave dealing with which one that is up to the operating system. To actually target the second screen, you would have to know it's there (some kind of system call), and target it. I have seen this in DirectX, but not otherwise.
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  6. Feb 2nd, 2004, 10:38 AM #5
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    I have tried a lot of things with the 'screen.cls'-file and gotten quite far, then I found out that a form maximizes on the screen that it is on. So the user just needs to drag the window to the right screen and that's it. It would have been a lot harder using screen.cls on systems with FIVE screens.

    BTW: I make the form borderless, titleless and the maximize it using Me.WindowState

    Thanx for not helping me.
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