Duane 2002-11-02 15:56
Hi Christian,
I am very new to UltraMon but have been using a multiple nonitor system for a about a year now. I use my system with from 5-8 monitors. I use my system for running slide shows to display action photography at large scale sporting events. I would like to be able to begin a new slide show, move it to a specific monitor and be able to know which slide show is running on which monitor all from Monitor1. We sometime run as many as 4 slide shows on a single monitor by using the tile commands on the windows task bar.
In other words I would like to know what is running on all the other monitors in menu format or a visual format without seeing the actual monitor. I would like to do all this from Monitor1.
Is this possible?
Thanks for your help.
Duane Thomas
Shooting Stars
Action Photography
Duane@sstars.net
www.sstars.net
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Doug 2002-11-02 19:59
Using the smart taskbar you could do this. Open a new taskbar for monitor 1, then set it to "show tasks from" all the monitors you desire (this will put all tasks on one taskbar).
Or you can open a bunch of seperate smart taskbars all on monitor 1. So that each only shows tasks from a certain monitor (thus seperating which program is on which monitor).
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Christian Studer 2002-11-03 01:52
You could try the monitor preview feature (UltraMon menu > Mirroring > Monitor Preview), problem is that it will most likely kill system performance.
Non-realtime previewing is planned for one of the next releases, this will reduce the impact on system performance.
Multiple UltraMon taskbars on monitor 1 as suggested by Doug should also work, but the only way to see to which monitor a taskbar belongs is to right-click the taskbar and take a look at the 'Show Tasks from' setting.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Duane 2002-11-03 05:57
Thanks for your replies. I tried the Mirror preview and as you said, had very poor results with system performance. I will try the multiple task bar suggestion.
What I had in mind was a very simple menu like that found in Multidesk from silicon realms. Something like this would be simple yet powerful for someone like me. Perhaps this could be worked into a future version or as a plug-in.
For now, I am just happy to have made the advancements that are already available with your program.
Thanks
Duane Thomas
Shooting Stars
Action Photography
Duane@sstars.net
www.sstars.net
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Duane 2002-11-03 06:27
Doug,
Sorry for my ignorance, however, I can not figure out how to create additional smart task bars in the manner you described. How do create a task bar on Mon1 that will show the programs on say Mon5 and so on.
Thanks for your help and understanding.
Duane
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Christian Studer 2002-11-03 06:53
You'll have to move the taskbars created for the other monitors to monitor 1 manually.
If the taskbars are locked, right-click each taskbar and uncheck 'Lock Taskbar'. Once the taskbar is unlocked, you'll get a drag grip in the lower right corner of the taskbar.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Duane 2002-11-03 10:37
Thanks Christian, I will give that a Try.
Duane
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