[THIN] Ultramon - RE: Re: OT: Multiple Monitors in Windows - developer quest ion
- From: "Alex ." <teknica@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:56:16 -0700
Check Ultramon (you can use it as is or get their multi-monitor SDK):
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
Also look at www.ishadow.com, there is explicit support for multiple monitors
and it works very well.If you need custom code to address your situation we can
help you with that too.
For a quick solution I would try Ultramon.
ALEX
From: Malcolm.BRUTON@xxxxxxxxxx: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: [THIN] Re: OT:
Multiple Monitors in Windows - developer quest ionDate: Mon, 3 Jul 2006
13:49:50 +0100
Jon
If you turn off multiview within the nvidia driver this may fix your problem.
Windows then treats it as two seperate monitors rather than one. We have found
that this works a lot better for poeple with more than two monitors. (with XPe
FR3)
Malcolm
-----Original Message-----From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ScottSent: 23 June 2006
14:48To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: [THIN] Re: OT: Multiple Monitors in Windows
- developer question
EnumDisplayMonitors API will give you details.
I've used code from http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/screen/index.html to
manipulate monitor properties.
HTH,
Scott
On 6/23/06, Luchette, Jon <JLuchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have an application that automatically detects the number of monitors and
the screen sizes when it launches, and then it will automatically fill the
screen on the pc appropriately based on what it detects in Windows. You can
NOT manually size the window of this application.
However the problem is that we have blade pcs, with special video cards for
multiple monitors that we want to run this application on. On these blade pcs,
windows only thinks there is 1 monitor, because it is the nvidia driver that is
handling the multiple monitor display rather than windows on these particular
pcs. This results in the application stretching across both monitors as if
they were one large monitor which is not what should happen if the application
properly detects 2 monitors.
We are working with the application vendor to determine what exactly they are
reading from in windows (API, reg key, ini file, etc) to detect the number of
monitors but have not heard back. We are also working with the hardware
manufacturer to try and come up with a solution but also have had no luck
there.
My question is this: does anybody know more specifically where in windows an
application might read the number of monitors or the size of the screen? (API,
reg key, ini file, etc) All we have been told is "We check windows" and that
is not really helping at this point. I also know where to check in windows by
opening up the display properties, but I am more interested in how applications
might read and return this information rather than how a user interacts with
it. If I know this answer we might be able to come up with a solution to our
issue.
Thank You,
_______________________________________________Jon Luchette
Emerson Hospital
Technology Specialist III
Work: 978-287-3369
Cell: 978-360-1379
jluchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________
-- Thanks,Scott D.
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