Thanks everyone It looks like fun working with this.
Marc ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Perry To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:31 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: How to use 2 monitors? Marc, Below is a summary of a discussion a couple of years ago relating to R:BASE 7.5, but I suggest that it is still applicable. Hope this gets you started. Credit the contributors. Bill To place the form wherever you want, use: Property rbase_form top 0 Property rbase_form left 0 To force your form to the topmost, leftmost location on your screen. Likewise, by playing with the numbers, you can place other forms anywhere else on the screen. I'll send you a screen shot of my new EDIT form strategy which is really up to 6 MDI forms on the screen at a time. Really cool. Claudine Robbins VP/Treasurer 713.977.6877 X111 713.417.4986 Cell 281.343.9917 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use 2 20" flat panels on my computer and it's a very productive tool. I can highly recommend the 2 monitor approach. First the customer must have a video card with 2 connections or have a second video card in the computer. Then you can start 2 sessions of your program, the first session with today's scheduling, the second session with tomorrows scheduling. It is easy to move each session from 1 monitor to the other. You can even have separate desktop wallpaper for each screen. To set up the monitors right click on the desktop, select properties and extend the windows desktop to both monitors. Hope this helps. Regards, Bill Eyring [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm running two monitors on one computer and it's one of the biggest productivity boosts I've got. I read left and top positions of some forms from a table and use property commands to locate them: PROPERTY RBASE_FORM LEFT .vLeftPos PROPERTY RBASE_FORM TOP .vTopPos The positions can also be hard-coded. The second monitor's left edge starts the pixel after the Primary Monitor's right edge; i.e. both monitors are 1024x768, so .vLeftPos = 1025 puts the left edge of the form on the left edge of the second monitor (2nd monitor is located to the right of my primary monitor). I've found that if a menu is opened on the second monitor, subsequent forms will also be on the second monitor (centered) without using property commands (Win 2000). Make sure second monitor is is checked to Extend the Windows Desktop to this Monitor Doug Hamilton That is correct - dialogs, pauses, report previews etc will appear in the center of the same screen as the session/app/menu. I started an app on my second screen and all the dialogs, pauses etc appeared on that screen. Then I dragged the menu to the primary screen and all the dialogs etc appeared on the primary screen. When the menu straddles the two screens, the dialogs will appear on the screen where the larger part of the menu is located. Doug -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 7:51 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - How to use 2 monitors? Hi Can you use 2 monitors on the same computer with RBase? If so how do you do it? Do you have to start 2 sessions on the same computer? Thanks Marc
