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Author Topic: MAME: Display on 2nd monitor but still use keyboard/mouse on 1st monitor  (Read 2108 times)

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ratsflif

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Hey,

I have mame setup to display on my 2nd monitor.  Is there any way to still be able to use my mouse and keyboard on my primary display so I can still use all the windows functions while the game is playing on the 2nd display being controlled by an arcade stick?

When I launch mame I lose my mouse and the keyboard only inputs to mame.

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Not when MAME is running in full screen mode. You would need to run MAME in Windowed mode and use software to remove it's titlebar and borders and position it so it fills the screen. An AutoHotkey script could do it.

Eg.
Code: [Select]
WinSet, Style, -0xC00000; remove the titlebar and border(s)
WinMove, , , 0, 0, 640, 480; move the window to 0, 0 and reize it to 640x480

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Thanks,

I will try it out



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I did this by simply configuring mame to use only joystick, no keyboard, or by configuring via the tab button then asing all the buttons of the joystick but not the keyboard.