Dual port video card

[Ops]

*very* nice and complete....I thank you sir!!!  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dar Scott" <dsc at swcp.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Dual port video card


> 
> On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Ops wrote:
> 
> > Thank you!!  ...you know, now that you've all "clued me in"...when I 
> > *did*
> > have limited time with this machine, I'm thinking that I saw the video
> > "setup" as one "double-wide" monitor...it showed 2 "screens" side by
> > side....I'll bet that's the case and simply adjusting the loc of my 
> > stacks
> > will get the job done!!
> 
> Sorry, I didn't respond the first time.  I didn't realize you meant a 
> desktop monitor; I thought you were making movies or something.  I 
> didn't even realize you were using Windows.  I should have seen the 
> backslashes.  Sorry.  I'm glad you were persistent.
> 
> I think others have covered most of what you need.  I'll add this:
> 
> Put your controls as much as possible on the primary monitor.  Tooltips 
> and some menus and the such do not work correctly on the second monitor.
> 
> If you need to develop without the two monitors, have a development 
> mode in which you put put the stacks into dressed windows within the 
> primary monitor with scrollbars.  In the delivery mode, they lose the 
> scrollbars and window dressing and are placed where they should be.  
> Make sure you can switch modes.  Plan on some time to fiddle with this 
> on the two-monitor system.  There might be some surprises.  If your 
> development resolution is greater than the delivery 2-monitor 
> resolution, then you need not fool with setting up scrollbars--I use 
> this method.
> 
> In some apps, the primary monitor is "computerish" and can have a 
> normal window.  In that case, it does not need to fill the screen.  I 
> usually put the start bar on the left of the desktop in that case.
> 
> Dar Scott
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
>