Dual Monitor Support

oldefoxx · Post by **oldefoxx** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 8:34 pm

I've considered updating to a dual monitor graphics card, such as the All-in_Wonder, but mostly because I have to have so many windows opened at the same time when programming in PureBasic and trying to single step code and watch results and changes. So I wondered how it would work on two montiros, and if PureBasic could be configured to use both monitors according to my preferences.

I'm also looking at the issue of programming two computers to interact with each other. It could be very useful to be able to program one of the two computers remotely, and to monitor it remotely as well, so that you could develop and run code interactively to see how well it would mesh.

A further thought is that the second computer could be a virtual PC so that the code for two computers can be developed and run on one, with some certainty that you will get the same results when actually running the code on different computers.

Post by **freak** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 8:42 pm

I have 2 monitors. No problem with PB. Windows turns it into one big desktop area anyway.
Of course an OpenScreen() will only use one (primary) monitor, but that is a
windows limitation, not a PB one.

Timo

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 9:24 pm

Same here - I have 3 monitors and haven't had a problem...

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:22 pm

running two monitors here, no problem

i'd advice to get multimon or ultramon to make life easier

there's somewhere a pb snippet on the forum for detecting multimonitor setups from within pb, otherwise you can still find it in the survival guide (link below)