Maximizer - Running from Bat

Hello,

I have been reading through : http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=1767 (Which I must say is a very well written post so thank you) and have been experimenting with setting my own 5 screen display through maximizer.

However I seem to be having troubles getting the windows to the right size when I go over to my second monitor.

My file is as follows:

REM batch file to launch 5 evenly spaced wows
REM Left monitor
"C:\Program Files\wow1\Maximizer.exe" --margin 0,0,0,1680
REM upper right of right mon
"C:\Program Files\wow2\Maximizer.exe" --margin 0,512,2320,0
REM upper left of right mon
"C:\Program Files\wow3\Maximizer.exe" --margin 0,512,1680,640
REM lower right of right mon
"C:\Program Files\wow4\Maximizer.exe" --margin 512,0,2320,0
REM lower left of right mon
"C:\Program Files\wow5\Maximizer.exe" --margin 512,0,1680,640

and I have set the expected resolutions in the config.wtf files of each folder.

My 2 monitors however run at 1650*1080 and 1280 * 1024, this is the result im getting:

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9408/examplepi2.jpg

As you can see the windows are not filling the width correctly (but the height is perfect) - Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong ?

Thank you for your time and help :)[/img]

I think the new Keyclone has better options for a second monitor. Check that out.

Yeah I've paid for it but the license hasn't updated yet and I'm guessing it'll take a few days :(

Up to now I have dual-boxed via multiplicity having various machines connected and clicking on windows to activate, it will be interesting to see how much easier this is.

However if anyone does know a solution to this problem it would still be nice :)

Judging from the BAT and the screenshot, and the fact that you're running monitors at different resolutions, I'm going to hazard that you're running in dual view rather than horizontal span. Your BAT, however, is configured for horizontal span.

When using the --margin command command with maximizer, the four numbers are used much the same way as margins in MS Word or the like, defining the amount of space between the edge of the screen and the edge of the space used by WoW. So, for instance, when you define the left-monitor instance of WoW with a right margin of 1680 while running in dual view, you're telling Maximer that you want a margin of the entire width of the monitor and you get an oddly compressed window like what you have.

I'm not at home to double-check this but there should a flag like --device:x or something of the sort that defines what monitor to display WoW on when using dual view.

Of course, if you are using horizontal span anyways then this post is clearly hogwash and you have some other sort of problem. Also if so do please tell me how you got horizontal span to work on monitors with different resolutions.

Thank you for your reply,

I looked into the config.ini file for the Maximizer program before posting this and did try with "Device = 2" on all and a "Device = 2 / Device = 1" combination (to match which device each one was on) - Neither seemed to work.

I'm not 100% sure whether my terminology for horizontal span / dual screen is the same as yours but to clarify, my desktop is simply extended over 2 monitors so I can have 1 window that covers the full width of both OR multiple windows which go over the edge and half appear on each screen. I assume this is horizontal span? (dual screen being when both screens display the same? [which is not what I have]).

When I set everything up to get this, I just went to Display settings / monitors on Vista and chose to "Extend the desktop onto this monitor" option. Then I aligned the second screen (one with less height) to the top of the other monitor so that the start bar on my first monitor fills that extra slight height gap.

I hope this clarify slightly my situation and answers your thoughts / questions.

I want to say with dual-veiw the devices are set as device 0 and device 1

Ahh I didn't think of that one and will give it a try :)

Thanks

If you're selecting the option in display properties to "Extend my desktop onto this monitor," that means that Windows is recognizing the monitors as two distinct displays (i.e. dual view). If you were running horizontal span, Windows would treat both monitors like a single display (so display properties would show one really wide monitor with really wide resolution options). This wouldn't work since you're apparently running two displays with different resolution, and horizontal span would force the resolution of the larger to match the resolution of the smaller, creating some really awful distortion.

Ahhh ok :) Thank you for clarifying that for me :) I guess I'm just lucky I got it sorted throug keyclone, but its nice to have an understand :)

Thank you for your time.