Re: multiple displays under Win32

["John McDermott" <jjm jkintl com>]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:01:56 -0400 (EDT),Mike Davis wrote:

> Running on Linux produces two displays, one with two screens and one  
> with a single screen. Under WinXP it's just one big
> screen with the geometry being the maximum width/height of all the  
> screens together. Unfortunately for me, my application
> requires knowledge of the different screen sizes (two are TY-type  
> displays). Is this a problem with Gtk-Perl, Gtk+ or just
> the underlying Win32 API?
> Does anyone know of a way to get around this or am I stuck with a nasty  
> hard coding exercise? I've had a look through the
> Gtk list archives and can't seem to find anyone else with a similar  
> problem.

I fiddled with this some time ago in a non-GDK situation.  IIRC, what you  
need to do is to go to the Control Panel/Display Properties and for each  
non-primary monitor uncheck the "Extend my Windows Desktop Onto this  
Monitor".  Of course, then your windows desktop will not appear on these  
monitors. That may make this suggestion useless for your other apps,  
though.

Windows behaves the way it does so that apps don't have to know that there  
are multiple monitors.  That makes things difficult for those that do,  
though...

--john


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