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- From: brian@rahul.net (Brian Feinberg)
- Subject: Change main screen without rebooting?
- Message-ID: <BuK0Fr.40z@rahul.net>
- Summary: Need to change main screen before launching a game
- Keywords: gworld gdevice quickdraw monitor hardware
- Sender: news@rahul.net (Usenet News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: bolero
- Organization: a2i network
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 05:55:03 GMT
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- I recently added a second monitor to my system. It is larger than my
- original one, but only has 4 bit color. Now I find that when I run certain
- games, it would be preferable for them to come up on the smaller screen,
- because of its greater color depth. However, many games just take over the
- screen, without creating a window, and the only thing I can do now is
- go to the Monitors control panel and reboot.
-
- I have been trying to write a small app that would change the main screen
- just before Launch-ing a selected program, with the idea of fooling
- the app into coming up on my other montiro. I've tried messing with
- SetDeviceAttributes on the GDevices, and chaning the MainDevice global.
- So far, no luck. Is there a way to do this?
-
- -- Brian Feinberg
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- Brian Feinberg <brian@rahul.net>
-