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Actually, I should point out that I have been using 5 monitors since Win 98 was released and I realized that the IT intern who sat next to me had a pile of disused monitors and PCI video cards he had...
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@Mike Mol, I totally agree! I viewed the source right away to see how he did his "trickery".
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This makes perfect sense. A little off-topic but I wonder why Cleartype wasn't properly implemented for vertical monitors though...
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@Mc: Windows Address Book 6 on a fully updated XP has the same bug. Minor, but annoying.
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The only time I find this annoying is for applications that insist on using MDI/tabbed interfaces (VS!) that don;t allow me to move a single code window to the other monitor. Thankfully, I still use...
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I've been back and forth on analyzing this quite a few times. The only solution is for the API to accept the major version as an argument.
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re: Why doesn't the Maximize button maximize across all monitors?
A friend has a 3 monitor setup and they are configured as a single display surface. It always drives me nuts when I maximize a window and it's suddenly five feet wide. He primarily plays a flight...
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> (Accessibility note: The text in this table cell is identical to the text in the previous cell.) Clever ***.
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I've found it very handy to stretch MDI applications across multiple monitors.
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I also think the presentation of this post is great. The only application that I have spanning monitors is my programming editor (Epsilon/emacs), and then I split the window to have one source file...
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Of course there's other reasons why you would want a properly spanned desktop across multiple monitor. One is gaming. The other is monitors like the IBM T221, where to get 48Hz refresh you can (given...
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There is one program which I regularly resize such that it covers multiple monitors: WinMerge. I size it so that the two files being compared each get their own monitor. And even then simply maximising...
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To echo others, very nice job on the demonstration! @Dee - For what it's worth, VS 2010 supports floating source windows, including on secondary monitors.
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@Imre Koszo I don't know, but because ClearType (TM) relies on the precise layout of each of the RGB subpixels which make up a pixel I expect it would not work optimally if these pixels' layout was...
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Even number of monitors isn't very useful, a monitor in the center of the desktop is required to get a good user experience. Though it would be useful if GetDesktopWindow(), which countless of apps...
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I use Remote Desktop to get around this problem. You can maximize it and it will appropriately fill all monitors, even if they are of different sizes and resolutions. The Windows team could learn from...
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I'm the one who asked this question. The background of this question, is that when I was visiting the control room of certain datacenter, I saw they combined multiple huge LED monitors to form a large...
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Regarding monitors of different size, I'd think that since we have access to the size of each monitors, and we have the monitor's "index" number, it's not difficult to calculate the maximum rectangle...
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Dialog boxes are their own problem.
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@Cheong: Here at work we 'inherit' monitors when new ones come in, so the chance that both monitors are the same is rather slim. Also, there are applications out there that will allow you to specify...
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