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

Hmmm I can't seem to set the display to a different resolution than the TV. perhaps the win2k driver does not support it?

I've found the best results for a display situation is to put the taskbar at the top and the second monitor (tv) below the main (patch) screen. That way ou can move the titlebar up so that it goes into the upper screen, and the taskbar is out of the way.

if your gemwin matches the resolution of the second monitor it should be no trouble to hide all the window decorations. (I've done it many times without anything but the window content visible (in w2k)

Good luck! Ben

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, chris clepper wrote:

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

B. Bogart