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showing Johny 5 or CPmaker on 2nd display?
bioart:
Hey Guys,
I thought I saw this before, but either I don't know how to search, or I imagined it/no one actually got it to work.
I have a 7" VGA display that I want to mount on my arcade. It will be driven by a second video card, so Windows (XP) will think know that I have 2 monitors. I want the FE (Mamewah at the moment, but anything that supports what i want will be tried) to display itself and start games on the big monitor. At the same time, I want a couple of things:
When the game starts, johny5 or cpmaker/etc. gets called and displays on the small monitor. The image stays while I play. While I'm browsing on the FE, it would be great to also show the controls on the second display, but that's not as important...
Anyone done this succesfully?
Thanks!
Art
Buddabing:
--- Quote from: bioart on December 24, 2005, 02:31:39 pm ---Hey Guys,
I thought I saw this before, but either I don't know how to search, or I imagined it/no one actually got it to work.
--- End quote ---
mccoy178:
I'm very interested in this as well. I believe Howard Casto has something in the works as well.
bioart:
Good to hear there is some hope...
Now that I have the hardware for it... anyone needing a tester, let me know :)
Art
Buddabing:
I've implemented multi display support for my viewer application. For anyone who wants to test, here is what needs to be done:
Download viewer.zip (from here) and extract viewer.exe to a directory. Launch a command prompt and cd to that directory.
Run viewer.exe (any png or jpg file) -cplog . Exit the viewer program with ESC. If you have a png file named controls.png, run viewer.exe thusly:
--- Code: ---viewer controls.png -cplog
--- End code ---
Then look at viewer.log with any text editor (you can run notepad from the same command prompt) and search for lines that say "Enumerating video device xxxxxxx". Mine said something like "..\.\DISPLAY1".
If you have two sceeens, more than one "Enumerating" message should appear.
To make the image appear on the second screen, just run viewer.exe with the -screen parameter.
If your screen has "..\.\DISPLAY2" just run:
--- Code: ---viewer.exe <any .png or .jpg file> ..\.\DISPLAY2
--- End code ---
Hopefully this will work.
Please let me know yea or nay.
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