Dilwyn,
I have a Vista dual screen setup at my office and at least QPC2
works perfectly with it. And yes, you simply drag the QL window to
the monitor of choice. This obviously doesn't work in full-screen
mode, but full-screen doesn't work well on modern LCD screens anyhow
because they don't scale well.
I have that problem using the Aurora in some resolutions with an LCD
screen. Looks worst with text, because individual horizontal lines get
repeated and makes text look really bad. Guess it's even worse for Q40
users with the 2:1 1024x512 pixel modes. At least some Aurora modes
look not too bad on a 14 inch non-widescreen monitor I use with the
Aurora. You do have to choose the right modes to suit the monitor,
though, or it looks awful.
If I remember right, QPC2 uses the "main" monitor in full-screen
mode.
No idea how the other emulators cope, however - if they use a
windowed mode, I see no reson why it shouldn't work as well.
Tobias
Thank you both (George and Tobias) for your replies. I knew QPC2
could, because when I had my eeePC notebook (which is now living in
West Ireland last I heard of it!) I was able to use QPC2 on either
screen with that, although I couldn't remember how to go about it. I
was using it when my son and I made the 25th anniversary QL
presentation for Quanta. Annoyingly, the Powerpoint viewer I used for
running that demo would only run on the first screen, so I had to have
QPC2 on the second monitor at the time.
But I don't remember using QL2K or Q-emuLator like that. They can both
run in windowed modes, so I guess SHOULD work (if anyone can confirm
that?)
And, no, I don't use it to hide my QPC windows ;-). Dual screen is
just a charm to work with when you're doing several things in
parallel, like preparing graphics using windows that you want to use
on the QL side.
Yes, of course - I must investigate whether my current laptop can
handle 2 monitors, as I know the graphics card on this PC has only one
video output. The eeePC could use its own screen as monitor one and an
external monitor could be (1) in place of the internal screen
(internal screen disabled), (2) duplicate the internal screen, or (3)
be an external second screen which was not the same as what was
displayed on the inbuilt monitor. Actually, (3) sort of worked in
reverse for me on the eeePC, because it was possible to do more
intricate work on the larger external monitor and leave things like
Outlook running on the smaller screen, which was good enough to see
when email arrived and so on. I remember the 14 inch monitor being
stood behind the eeePC on top of a pile of books so I could see one
display above the other without turning my head to see what I was
typing! I seem to remember that some apps will let you drag and drop
from programs running on one screen to programs running on another,
which is great.
Dilwyn Jones
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