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

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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

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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

 

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