virtual display utility

[wilsonch]

The problem: I have a netbook. Display is 1024 x 600. In two programs I use there is a window that has no scroll bars or maximize button and cannot be resized, and the window size conflicts with the display.

In one case the window is a large dialog box that is taller than the screen. When I move the window up as high as I can (so the title bar is almost all off the screen) the box's buttons have only their very tops visible at the very bottom of the screen. I'm able to use the keyboard to move the highlight to one button and "click" it.

In the other case the window border size programmatically gets smaller to fit nicely into the 1024 x 600 display. Unfortunately the window's *contents* extend beyond the edge of the window border, and I cannot see or enter data into the lowest sixth or so of the window contents. Nor can I move the window contents within the window.

The only other resolution my display supports is 800 x 600 and I tried that and it didn't solve the problem.

What I think I"m looking for is some sort of display virtualizer thing that would either create a virtual display bigger than the real one, and I could scroll in it to bring different parts of this virtual display onto the real display; or would create a virtual display and reduce its size so that it would show up within the physical display. I've looked at a few virtual desktop utilities but they seem to create virtual desktops that are the same, graphically, as the regular one.

Or a utility that changes the properites of the one window so that its contents are smaller but it doesn't know it, so all of its contents are shown in a smaller window that fits on my screen.

Anyhow, does anyone here know of such utilities?

[mouser]

i'd be interested in hearing solutions to this as well.

[matt_man22]

See https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=19170.0

Accidentally posted this response in the actual post

[cmpm]

As a side note and probably not the solution.

Are the font settings for the OS set higher then normal?
Try setting the fonts to normal in your graphic settings,
or perhaps lower, which I haven't tried.

Right click desktop, properties, settings, advanced.
Is where the font control is for XP.
W7 is right click desktop, personalize, display.

Hope that helps.

[mouser]

His problem is that netbook screens have such a small vertical resolution (600 pixels) that some applications have dialogs that are taller than the entire screen.

[joby_toss]

I found out that PowerPro can resize ”non resizable” windows, as well as move them partially off the screen using only the keyboard. Not a pretty solution though, but gets the job done.

[mouser]

From a right click on the task bar or titlebar for a window, and selecting move, you can use cursor keys to move the window up above the top of the screen -- however as soon as you try to access a control in the window, it will snap back down -- so you cant access controls near the bottom.

[CleverCat]

Try this - I've been using it for a while and love it!

Nifty Windows http://www.enovatic....indows/introduction/

[tsaint]

There are some mentioned if you search at the eeePC forum at http://forum.eeeuser.com/search.php
eg (searching on forum: eeePC and Windows XP)
1. MoveMe

http://www.damnsoft....jects;section=moveme

2. Softswitch

http://forum.eeeuser...ewtopic.php?id=26564

[vixay]

How about setting a resolution higher than what is allowed?

Sometimes this is what happens: You see only a part of the screen (i.e. your native resolution) but if you move your mouse in any direction, the screen scrolls and shows that part... and voila your screen acts like a window for a larger screen!

This is happened to me when playing games ...etc and the switch back to the desktop was not made correctly, i don't know if it's possible to induce this behavior!

[t2]

Everybody's missing the point. I believe we're talking about virtual display device, just as there is a virtual CD drive (like the one with Alcohol120% or DaemonTools).
The idea also came to my mind when I tried to play the game Pathologic but the picture wasn't good on widescreen, it doesn't have windowed mode, it can't be tweaked and I'm sick of having played Diablo2 stretched from 800x600.

A virtual display window should be something like a 800x600 window on my 1280x800 desktop (think of windowed Quake 3). I searched the web but AFAIK there is no such thing (yet).
There is a utility to emulate hardware TnL (required for most games nowadays)(see http://www.3dfxzone....3d_analyze/download/), but that's not it either.
There is an old utility someone made called DXWnd that supposedly runs non-windowed games in a window. Won't work for me (either XP or Vista machine), plus it's directx version-specific.

I'm not sure if this is even possible,
if it is, it would need a virtual device driver (any volunteers?).

[cmpm]

check out some of these

virtual desktop ran me around in circles
desktop extender seems to be more what you may want

http://www.google.co...amp;client=firefox-a

[wilsonch]

Samsung made a utility available that allows my netbook display to be 1024x768. It looks a little squashed but is okay.

And I bought a monitor that I use at home.

[lanux128]

Samsung made a utility available that allows my netbook display to be 1024x768.

-wilsonch (May 23, 2010, 05:43 PM)

are you referring to the "easy display manager"?

• http://www.samsung.c...oad&menu2=detail

[wilsonch]

It's "Easy Resolution Manager." It just allows one to choose one of two resolutions -- 600 tall or 768 tall. That's all it does.

[ha14]

can windowspace be of any help; its a shareware
http://www.ntwind.co...are/windowspace.html

 snap windows to the screen edges and other windows, move and resize them with keyboard shortcuts, maximize vertically or horizontally, pin on top of the other windows, hide from view, minimize to tray, and it’s just the beginning!