Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple views on separate monitors?

2006-10-22 Thread Sexauer, Steve
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple views on separate monitors? --- Sexauer, Steve wrote: can you use multiple monitors and perhaps multiple video cards with flightgear in windows or linux? By that I mean do an out the window view on one monitor and a cockpit view on another. Yes, FG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple views on separate monitors?

2006-10-22 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- Sexauer, Steve wrote: Thanks for the info. I should have clarified that I was wondering if how hard it would be to do it on one machine --of course the entire program is too processor intensive to run twice on one machine. Some simulator programs run multiple windows on low end machines,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple views on separate monitors?

2006-10-22 Thread Curtis Olson
A couple things that could be done right now.Use something like an nvidia card with twin-view which creates a single desktop spanning 2 displays. You could create a FG window that stretches across the two displays, then cover one of those with a 2d panel. You'd have to play tricky games with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple views on separate monitors?

2006-10-21 Thread Stuart Buchanan
--- Sexauer, Steve wrote: can you use multiple monitors and perhaps multiple video cards with flightgear in windows or linux? By that I mean do an out the window view on one monitor and a cockpit view on another. Yes, FG supports multiple monitors. It's even documented in The Manual

[Flightgear-devel] multiple views on separate monitors?

2006-10-20 Thread Sexauer, Steve
can you use multiple monitors and perhaps multiple video cards with flightgear in windows or linux? By that I mean do an out the window view on one monitor and a cockpit view on another. if not, I wonder if the architecture lends itself to upgrading to that capability , or if that is a