I am using a dual headed card - however to get everythign working perfectly I had to use a third party software called Ultramon.
> > And you didn't write your own program to find newly created windows that spanned two > monitors > and move them to one monitor or the other? Shame on you :) > > Cheers, > Nicholas Sherlock > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Luke Bettis > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:00 AM > Subject: Re: RE: [DUG]: Tip for sore eyes > > > W2K and XP should support multiple monitors straight away. > > > > You'll either need a video card with two outputs or two video cards. Apart > > from that, don't think you need anything else. > > I found that two seperate video card was the way to go. I've tried Matrox and Ati > dual head cards > and experienced problems when maximising a form - they maximised over both monitors. > After > some fidling with settings you can stop this, but pop-up windows still appeared > centered between > the two monitors. > > I currently have an Ati Agp card that came with the PC and a Matrox Pci card driving > a couple of > 17" LCD monitors. > > > W2K and XP should support multiple monitors straight away. > > You'll either need a video card with two outputs or two video cards. Apart from > that, don't think > you need anything else. > > Once Windows finds your new video card (i.e. you've got the hardware installed), you > can use the > Control Panel Display Settings Applet, Settings tab, to tell Windoze to use both > monitors. > > That's about it. Simple. > > Good luck, > > Conor > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have a spare monitor at home. Might try bringing it in to work and trying the dual > screen thing. > How do I set this up (physically - i.e. cables) and s/w wise? Regards Rohit ====================================================================== CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21 Barry's Point Road, AKL, New Zealand PH (649) 489-2280 FX (649) 489-2290 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
