Re: Any way to have an MFC app handle multiple physical displays?

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:20:45 GMT
Message-ID:
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This code will make a dialog span across all the monitors;

class CMyDialog : public CDialog
{
......
private:
   static CRect m_MonitorRect;
   static BOOL CALLBACK MyInfoEnumProc(HMONITOR hMonitor,HDC
hdcMonitor,LPRECT lprcMonitor,LPARAM dwData);
};

CRect CMyDialog::m_MonitorRect;

BOOL CMyDialog::OnInitDialog()
{
......

   EnumDisplayMonitors(NULL, NULL, MyInfoEnumProc, 0);
   SetWindowPos(NULL,m_MonitorRect.left,m_MonitorRect.top,m_MonitorRect.Width(),m_MonitorRect.Height(),SWP_NOZORDER);
   return TRUE; // return TRUE unless you set the focus to a control
}

BOOL CMultiMonitorDlgDlg::MyInfoEnumProc(HMONITOR hMonitor,HDC
hdcMonitor,LPRECT lprcMonitor,LPARAM dwData)
{
   CRect Rect(lprcMonitor);
   m_MonitorRect.left = min(Rect.left,m_MonitorRect.left);
   m_MonitorRect.top = 0;
   if (m_MonitorRect.bottom == 0)
   {
      m_MonitorRect.bottom = Rect.bottom;
   }
   else
   {
      m_MonitorRect.bottom = min(Rect.bottom,m_MonitorRect.bottom);
   }
   m_MonitorRect.right = m_MonitorRect.left + m_MonitorRect.Width() +
Rect.Width();
   return TRUE;
}

AliR.

"AliR (VC++ MVP)" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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What do you mean display the app on multiple monitors? Do you mean one
window in one monitor and another on a different monitor. Or one window
that spans both monitors?

The get monitor info will give you the size of the display area
(640X480,800X600,....) and things like that. The first monitor will have
an origin of 0,0, and the second monitor will have +/- the size of the
first monitor as its X origin, (for example, 1024,0 if the first monitor
is displaying 1024x768).

So I guess what you can do is get the monitor info for all the monitors
using EnumDisplayMonitors and GetMonitorInfo. Add the widths together,
keep track of the left most coordinates you get from rcMonitor or rcWork,
and take the smallest height that you come across.

Then use MoveWindow or SetWindowPos to make your window span across the
monitors.

But you need to be a little more clear as to what it is that you want to
do.

AliR.

<maruk2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 26, 3:06 pm, "AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <A...@online.nospam> wrote:

I don't quite understand what you mean.
But here are routines for multimonitor support.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/...

AliR.

<mar...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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These seem to be the routines to get info about monitors *already*
displaying the frame of an app.

What about the routines to display the app on multiple monitors?
All current routines assume one logical display and assume a user
will move the app (its main frame) between the displays. How about
utilities that will create multiple frames/views and display each
frame/view
to a different display?

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