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- SetDefMon 1.2 (9.9.93)
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- Written 1992-1993 by
- Franz Schwarz
- Mühlenstraße 2
- D-78591 Durchhausen, Germany
- Uucp: Franz_Schwarz@mil.ka.sub.org
- Fido: 2:2476/506.18
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- SetDefMon alllows you to set your system's default monitor in your
- WBStartup, or to zap the default monitor on the fly whenever you want. The
- default monitor must be 'PAL/NTSC compatible', e.g. its DisplayIDs have to
- be made up exactly like those of the PAL/NTSC monitor drivers. This is
- currently the case for the PAL, NTSC, EURO36, SUPER72, DBLPAL and DBLNTSC
- monitor drivers, where the later two require OS3.0 and the AGA chip set.
- Me personally, I use SetDefMon in my WBStartup to set the EURO36 monitor as
- my default monitor. The EURO36 monitor gives me horizontally full NTSC
- width (720 pixels), and vertically 201 (i.e. nominal NTSC resolution)
- pixels. In connection with a flickerfixer, you get a reasonable 720*402
- pixels resolution with normal NTSC/PAL video contention, with an
- eye-friendly vertical frame update rate of 72Hz, making it an ideal
- operation mode, IMHO. I've mapped 'setdefmon pal', 'setdefmon ntsc' &
- 'setdefmon euro36' to three different hotkeys, enabling me to quickly
- change the default monitor on the fly. There's one catch about this 'mode
- zapping', however: The screens that are already open with a defaultmonitor
- displayid will be cast to the respective new defaultmonitor mode as soon as
- one screen closes. Note that this is only a cosmetic thing, nothing
- dangerous at all.
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- The command line template of SetDefMon is
- 'PAL/S,NTSC/S,EURO36/S,SUPER72/S,DBLNTSC/S,DBLPAL/S' - where you have to
- specify exactly one of the switches.
- When started from Workbench, SetDefMon expects that exactly one of
- the PAL, NTSC, EURO36, SUPER72, DBLNTSC or DBLPAL tooltypes are present and
- activated in its icon.
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- Setting the default monitor to either PAL or NTSC in your startup-sequence
- is considered to be secure in all cases, for other operations there exists
- a very, very tiny chance that antiquated 1.3 software may in very rare
- cases be confused. Note however, that I use SetDefMon for more than a year
- now, and I have only found two or three programs that caused minor problems
- with toggling modes on the fly, and I never found a program at all that was
- confused by setting the default monitor to EURO36 during WBStartup.
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- LEGAL: SetDefMon is placed in the public domain - the author can't be hold
- liable for any damage that stems from the use of this program - no matter
- whether indirect damage or direct damage.
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- Have fun,
- Franz 'Blacky' Schwarz
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