i've got geforce2mx(with composite out) and it CAN'T be used as "native" 2 screens !!! i can use only clone, horizontal span or vertical span, so in a program that (could) use 2 screen, i have only 1 to choose) that seems to be one of the features thats ripped in the mx version :(
i've used gem with 2 cards (screen1 gemwindow / screen2 pd) i got rid of that task bar only resising it over 640x480 (res of screen1) an then moving it to screen1...
there was something in the gem-docs how to get that automaticly open maximized in screen1 (you had to make a variable in windows "gem_single_contest=1", or something like that), but the task bar is still there...
and remember, when using 2 cards on windows, only card1 (primary display) uses directX/openGL
s**t, we have a cool dualhead card with 3dlabs chip that can use directX/openGL on both outputs (and at the same time!!!), BUT theres no openGL drivers win2k and somehow wont work under win98 (maybe defect, ebay cheaper) :(((((((((
but the best tip is: buy a scanconverter with zoom !!! (that way you can use also progs that wont have fullscreen or dual output)
cheers -andre
----- Original Message ----- From: "chris clepper" cclepper@artic.edu To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:57 AM Subject: [PD] [GEM] multi-displays in win2k
ok. i have gem going in win2k and i have two displays (one crt for the patch, tv for the gemwin) driven by a geforce2 card. i have the extended desktop going but i would like to do the following:
- have unequal sized displays (the crt 1024x768 + tv 640x480). right
now i can only do 1600x600 even though the card can do many different combinations of resolutions. i can do this in linux, but can't get it going in win2k using nview.
- move the gemwin without the border. i checked the code and it
doesn't seem like the position of the window can be set through an argument or message like a [position X, Y]. perhaps also when creating the context there could be a [fullscreen n] message where n is the display number?? or is there some easy way to drag the thing without the title bar that i don't know about...
- get rid of the stupid task bar. i checked the hide task bar
feature but there is still a sliver of it at the bottom of the screen. it's on both screens which is even more annoying.
thanks cgc