Re[3]: The Bat and Dual Monitors instability
Hello admin, On Thursday, September 23, 2004, 7:33:05 PM, you wrote: >> Hi, >> Thursday, September 23, 2004, 12:25:51 PM, you wrote: aacu>>> b) Unspecified instability causing TB to quit and close down without aacu>>> warning with a 'MS error 'Send Now' message thing. aacu>>> This seems, so far, not to happen when TB is displayed on the primary aacu>>> monitor. aacu>>> Anyone else using dual monitors are you getting similar probs? > After a day of complete nightmare with TB crashing out and system > errors popping up everywhere I've uninstalled TB and am using it on my > Laptop. > I am very disappointed to discover that this has been a long term > bug/problem and nothing seems to have been done about it. I can't > believe this is regarded as trivial. I am running dual monitors here on a Radeon 9800 Pro. I have just been moving TB! between monitors and re-sizing column headers without problems. Unfortunately most s/w is not dual monitor aware (try Delphi 7 for some fun) and the older Windows help system produces blank dialogs on the secondary monitor. Are your graphics drivers up to date? -- Best wishes Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[3]: The Bat and Dual Monitors instability
Hello Group On Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 2:17:29 PM, wrote: > Hello Steven, > Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 8:56:57 AM, you wrote: >> admin, >> I also use TB (v2) on a multi-monitor (3) configuration. > Do you have a physical 3 screens or virtual ? > I tried on 2 physical screens, works fine. Since application have no > idea that there are more than 1 screen. >> And since I use TB2, I doubt it will ever be fixed because >> I get a strong impression that v2 has been abandoned. RIT >> wants us to pay for v3 to get features we neither need nor >> want in order to get bug fixes to v2 that haven't even been >> implemented. > "Welcome to the real world" (c) A black guy with a blue pills from > a place that calls Matrix. I wonder if the key may be whether you use the multi monitors as one big screen (stretched mode in Matrox speak) or run them independently? I often have problems when old style help dialogs appear on the secondary monitor in that the dialog has a caption asking me to select something but the body is empty. My Parhelia is having a break at the Matrox hospital in Ireland at the moment, I'll do some experiments when (?if) it comes back. -- Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK :Jeff_Gaines: Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[3]: The Bat and Dual Monitors instability
Ivan, Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 9:17:29 AM, you wrote: >> I also use TB (v2) on a multi-monitor (3) configuration. IL> Do you have a physical 3 screens or virtual ? I have three physical monitors attached to three physical video cards (AGP GeForce 2/MX, PCI Diamond Viper 550, PCI 3Dfx Banshee) and use the multi-monitor capability that is built in to Windows 2000 (which is also in WinME and WinXP). I've never seen the point of different virtual screens, since if I'm able to keep track of that many windows on ONE physical screen anyway, what's the difference? IL> I tried on 2 physical screens, works fine. Since application IL> have no idea that there are more than 1 screen. I write Windows software for a living and I can say with assurance that applications that have no idea there is more than one screen simply haven't checked. There are standard system calls to get the number, size, resolution, color depth, etc. of every active display. There is probably a call to determine the layout of the displays, too, but I haven't needed that one yet. >> And since I use TB2, I doubt it will ever be fixed because >> I get a strong impression that v2 has been abandoned. RIT >> wants us to pay for v3 to get features we neither need nor >> want in order to get bug fixes to v2 that haven't even been >> implemented. IL> "Welcome to the real world" (c) A black guy with a blue pills IL> from a place that calls Matrix. Yup. But since I have the "privilege" of supporting software that is sometimes as much as 20 years old (but typically only about 5-8 yrs old), I've developed a strong belief that all abandoned (AKA unsupported) software should be either: (A) Automatically entered into the public domain, WITH source, so that someone else may maintain it. (B) Upgraded (for FREE) to the next supported version. (Sorry I took so long to respond, I was out of town) -- Steve Valliere| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Visions, Inc. | http://www.e-visions.com 1650 Barrett Dr | Voice (321) 632-7530 Rockledge, FL 32955 | Fax (321) 632-3396 Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
