Re: Building Public Information Terminal

[David Irvine <dirvine ayrsoft com>]

Thanks for that I would llove to have your dual head code, tht would be 
great. I will be using a stripped down linux mandrake. Thanks very much

David Corrigan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What OS will you be using? Creating a gui should be easy if you are
> using windows or linux you will find most of the tools for it at
> www.gtk.org including a tutorial and some examples. Here is some code
> to detect multiple monitors which might help.
>
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main( int   argc,
>         char *argv[] )
> {
>       gint num_screen = 0;
>       GdkScreen *display;
>
>       gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
>
>       display = gdk_screen_get_default ();
>       num_screen = gdk_screen_get_n_monitors (display);
>
>       if (num_screen <= 1)
>       {
>       printf ("This Xserver has one screen for the default Xinerama display.");
>       }
>       else
>       {
>       printf ("This Xserver has %d screens for the default Xinerama
> display.\n",num_screen);
>       }
>
>      return 0;
> }
>
> I've only tested this code in Linux but it should work for Windows
> also assuming you have GTK installed.
> I have a better demo which places a window on each screen and another
> one with borderless windows. If you need them it I can post them.
>
> David
>