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Post New Requests Here / Re: Force PPTView.exe to always show on secondary monitor
« on: August 21, 2006, 09:48 AM »
lanux128 - you're a genius  8)

WinWarden works just fine to move the PPT to the second monitor.

For the record, I'm using the following line in WinWarden2.ini:

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Creating,PowerPoint Viewer Slide Show - *,,WholeScreen,,1280,0,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I have two monitors @ 1280x1024, so the new position of 1280,0 moves the PPT window to the upper left corner of monitor #2. Note, this only works if both monitors are the same size. WinWarden will resize the window if desired, but PPTview doesn't recognize that situation, and as such it behaves as if you simply cropped the presentation - it doesn't resize the presentation to match the new window size.

So, problem solved. Yay!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Force PPTView.exe to always show on secondary monitor
« on: August 20, 2006, 09:33 PM »
Nice find -- and I think it would work. At least, WinWarden, on my single-monitor PC, is able to resize and move the PPTview window.  :Thmbsup:

Skrommel, what think ye? I can't remember for sure, but didn't you add code to GridMove (err, ZoneSize?) recently that could detect multiple monitors? If so, could it be adapted to give WinWarden the ability to force a given window onto a given monitor's desktop space?

I suppose I could probably use WinWarden as is to force the window into the right position. I'll try that next time I'm at a two-monitor PC!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Force PPTView.exe to always show on secondary monitor
« on: August 20, 2006, 02:44 PM »
Close, but... I'm looking to force the PPTview.exe program onto the second monitor. That's different than viewing a slide show from within the main powerpoint app; PPTview is strictly for viewing - and it opens only a "window" for the slide show, so neither the slide deck nor the presenter view is showing.

For what it's worth, I'm actually hoping to use this to make it easier to show a second slide deck while one is already running from within the main program.

- Kevin

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Post New Requests Here / DONE: Force PPTView.exe to always show on secondary monitor
« on: August 19, 2006, 10:12 PM »
I need a way to force M$'s PowerPoint 2003 viewer (PPTView.exe, included with PowerPoint 2003 or freely downloadable from microsoft.com) to display a slide show on a secondary monitor. Ideally I don't want to have to click or press something after launching it either -- it should just pop up on the second monitor every time.

PPTview.exe lacks a cmd-line option for this. Furthermore it lacks a title bar, so I can't even just drag it over.

Don't know if such a thing is possible; I know it's doable for most apps but don't know if PPTview will work properly if something else forces it to display over there.

I already googled a bit trying to find an existing utility that would handle this task.

The PC in question is used to drive the projector at church on Sunday mornings, so I don't want anything bloated or flaky installed; in my mind, that rules out swiss-army-knife multi-mon apps, like Oscar's MultiMon Taskbar, UltraMon, or ATI's Hydravision.

We're using an ATI Radeon x300 card (yeah, cheap, but it works...) if it makes any difference.

Anyone game? Or can you point me at an existing utility that might do what I'm looking for?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Option to NOT save to file?
« on: July 30, 2006, 08:24 PM »
Overwriting the most recent 'temporary' capture file seems quite reasonable to me. It solves any concerns over disk-space usage without requiring the user to do anything, yet prevents having to make any major changes to the app to avoid any use of a file.

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