From: Karl E. Peterson on
Robert Comer wrote:
> Just saw a workaround in the WVPC forum, make your main monitor the rightmost
> monitor in the resolution settings and your seamless app will no longer span
> both monitors.

OMG! That works! Where'd you find it?

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Now, I just gotta move all my icons from one monitor to the other.


From: Karl E. Peterson on
Chirag wrote:
>> But monitor "0" is the virtual display, that covers the whole thing. It's
>> coordinates would be:
>>
>> 0,0 2559,0
>>
>> *0*
>>
>> 0,1023 2559,1023
>>
>> That's the one being given to the seamless apps, when they inquire about
>> monitor dimensions. This also explains why their popup dialogs (msgbox's,
>> etc) so often appear split between the two monitors. They're simply
>> centering themselves on what they see as "the" monitor.
>
> In that case, for slide shows, all you need to do is resize the slide show to
> half of its width. I quickly wrapped this up in an add-in - WVPC Assistant -
> http://officeone.mvps.org/wvpcassist/WVPCAssistant10.exe. Install it within
> your WVPC instance. Now Whenever you start PowerPoint slide show within your
> WVPC instance, the slide show will be resized to half so that it shows up on
> the first monitor. Current limitations of the add-in: (1) It works only with
> 2 monitors, (2) Both the monitors need to be of the same resolution, (3) It
> doesn't care if you run it within WVPC or on regular Windows - it just
> resizes the slide show in first half.

Will give that a shot!

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From: Karl E. Peterson on
Steve Rindsberg wrote:
> Thanks ...
>
> Not sure what I'll use it for, but something will come up, no doubt.
> <g>

It's the /only/ way to run 16-bit apps in x64, for one thing. Also, it
seems FrontPage is totally hosed on w7. And, one of the cooler uses
I've put it to is this very one - having side by side installs of
different Office versions. :-)

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From: Karl E. Peterson on
senn wrote:
>> that starts up
>> (in the background, unseen)
>
> You feel the minutes don't you? <g>.

Heh, on the first instance, yeah. But if you're like me, and will tend
to have 3 or 4 FrontPage instances running at any given time, as well
as a couple/few Words, Excels or PowerPoints, they start to pop just as
quickly as any other. <g>

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From: Robert Comer on
> Yeah, the more I thought about it last night, that realization dawned on
> me. That would definitely seem to be the better enhancement request, but
> I'm guessing the odds of that are pretty darned low, huh?

You never know, if you request it and give a darn good reason most people
need it, they're pretty open to suggestions.

> Whazzat?

RAIL is an RDP way of sharing application windows, it's not just a WVPC
thing.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc239612%28PROT.10%29.aspx

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Bob Comer



"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message
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> Robert Comer wrote:
>> I very much understand what you mean, but I think WVPC would have to be
>> multiple monitor aware (and assignable to specific monitors) for you to
>> get what you want, and I'm afraid that's not the case.
>
> Yeah, the more I thought about it last night, that realization dawned on
> me. That would definitely seem to be the better enhancement request, but
> I'm guessing the odds of that are pretty darned low, huh?
>
>> You can cheat by not using full screen mode and just sizing the window
>> correctly I would think...
>
> That works well, except with apps that decide for themselves. Like
> PowerPoint in slideshow mode. I'm going to try Chirag's add-in, and see
> how that goes, though.
>
>> I wonder if RAIL has this problem independent of WVPC...
>
> Whazzat?
>
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