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For applications that open to the center of the monitor (on a single monitor set-up), do they open to the center of the primary monitor...or to the center of the exended desktop created by the primary and secondary monitor (on a dual monitor set-up)?
Can the opening position of such a "centering application be controlled...the application is not applescriptable...I've tried that?
Also...concerning monitors set within monitors in the monitor conrol panel...
Would a 17" Titanium or G4 (set to 1440X900 - primary display) placed on top of a projector display (set at 1024X768 - secondary display)...leave 2" of side desktop space for menu's on the primary display.......... while only showing the center 1024X768 on the secondary display (for projection)?
Or would that not work?
Please respond...
I hope this helps. I have not touched a G4 dual monitor setup, but I am going on past experiences with dual monitor setups, so some of the info may be incorrect. If someone else responds contradicting my info then they are probably correct...but, since no one yet has responded, I thought I would.
For applications that open to the center of the monitor (on a single monitor set-up), do they open to the center of the primary monitor...or to the center of the exended desktop created by the primary and secondary monitor (on a dual monitor set-up)?
Although the programmer probably could tell the application otherwise, the application should open in the main monitor-- the one with the menubar. I have heard some apps having problems with this, however. Which app is it, if you don't mind saying? If the programmers were really good, they would write to the prefs to remember where the window was placed last time the app was closed, and then when the app was re-opened, it would check if that placement was still valid (i.e., if the second monitor was still plugged in), and put the app's window there. But, sometimes things like that never cross the programmer's mind, if they have only a "one monitor" setup.
Would a 17" Titanium or G4 (set to 1440X900 - primary display) placed on top of a projector display (set at 1024X768 - secondary display)...leave 2" of side desktop space for menu's on the primary display.......... while only showing the center 1024X768 on the secondary display (for projection)?
I think I understand what you are asking. Historically (and it looks like this is still the case with the new models), both monitors (the projector and the internal LCD) will go with the smaller size-- each one is an exact mirror of the other. If the projector is only 1024x768, the LCD desktop will "shrink" and leave blank space all around it, with the desktop in the center. Sometimes this makes things look funny because the LCD screen's pixels are either on or off-- unlike a CRT that can sync happily to most sizes. So, some of the text on the LCD will look like jagged, but it will still be readable.
Again, I hope this helps some...
The Hyperstudio window has no window-position memory...it always reopens to the center of the monitor.
I'm trying to find a "work around" so that I can use Hyperstudio on two monitors...in non-linear ways...
Presently, I'm stuck doing linear presentations
Thanks for your ideas...if you have any more...let me know...
