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I think that this might be kinda tough to code, if it is even possible, because you would have to go pretty low level in Windows to fool it into thinking you have more than one monitor when you only have one.

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Does anyone know of some software that can allow you to simulate multiple monitors on a single screen? I think this would help me A LOT in my debugging of code I write so that it is multi-monitor compatible.

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Eric,

Circle Dock doesn't like to move from one monitor to the other on my two-monitor system.
It will move around on either screen but will not cross the boundary from one to the other.
In the attached image the vertical green line represents the division between my screens.

Windows XP Pro SP3.


-cranioscopical (July 14, 2008, 06:33 AM)

Hmm, that is a weird problem. I don't have a multi-monitor system myself but if you are able to have Circle Dock show up on either monitor, I would expect you to be able to move it across the monitor boundaries. I wonder what the problem might be. I'll need a multi-monitor system to test it out but I don't know of anyone that has one so this might be an issue that will take a while to sort out unless I can just spot it in my code. I just wish that .Net treated a multi-monitor system as a single entity and kept things simplified so these things wouldn't happen. Most programmers just don't care how many monitors you have, just the pixel sizes.

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I'm going to be rewriting Circle Dock from scratch with a better program design
-VideoInPicture (July 14, 2008, 01:21 AM)

Sort of very good to hear this (keen on a better design  :up:, slightly impatient for developments  :-\). Very, very happy to hear that you will continue developing it  :-*.

It's very nice to have something entirely designed around the mouse for those of us who use the mouse most of the time.

One suggestion I would make for the future is hierarchical folders of applications, which can either be opened or closed (as on a folder tree). This is partly as a way of only having the icons I might use right now being visible, but also as a way of grouping icons (otherwise the prog seems to move them about every time the settings are changed).



Suggestion noted. I'll keep this in mind as I plan the architecture of the program. I'm going to do lots of detailed planning and more code research this time so that I can keep the program flexible and modular.

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Eric I hope you won't take this the wrong way -- but I really cannot wait until you decide to sink your teeth into a project that has a little more practical use and is little less of a proof-of-concept thing. 

I have to say, I would like this project developed beyond the proof-of-concept stage as I see it having a lot of practical use for me. I can see that I might no longer 'need' Object or Rocket docks. OTOH, I do understand that keyboard whizzes might not see the point at all.

PS - the rotation with the mouse scroll button is very, very cool when it is on the edge of the screen. 8) 8) :up:

PPS - I have to agree with Mouser. Seems incredible to me (admittedly a non-programmer) that you can do this in 2 weeks. Not just for the technical skill, but the quality of the ideas behind the program & its implementation.

I'm going to be rewriting Circle Dock from scratch with a better program design because I've learned a lot about what needs to be done for a dock in this first version. I'll be addressing the performance and modularity issues of the current version and I'll be designing the program so that you are able to use current Object Dock docklets in Circle Dock. It might take a while though. Anyone interested in joining the project? The language to be used will either be Visual Basic .Net or C#.

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