Dual Display Question

[Steve Haack]

All,
I have an application that I am building, which will use dual displays. The
primary screen (or laptop display) would be used by the person running the
application and entering data, etc.

The other display is a form that would be displayed on a projector to
provides information to a group of people in a room.

My question is this. How do I programatically determine there are multiple
displays, and then how do I open a form on the secondary display when I want
to?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Piet Linden]

All,
I have an application that I am building, which will use dual displays. The
primary screen (or laptop display) would be used by the person running the
application and entering data, etc.

The other display is a form that would be displayed on a projector to
provides information to a group of people in a room.

My question is this. How do I programatically determine there are multiple
displays, and then how do I open a form on the secondary display when I want
to?

Thanks,
Steve

Steve,
Here's a partial answer... this determines how many displays are
connected to the computer... how you force a form to open on a
secondary display, I don't know...

http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/core/getmonitorcount.htm

 

[Rob Parker]

Hi Steve,

If you're wanting to do this programmatically from a single Access
application, I think you'll be out of luck. The only way you'll get
something to display from a single Access interface window on a dual display
system is to make the Access window large enough to cover both displays, and
then position your forms within that window. And, if you are going to do
that, it will certainly be easier to do so manually while running the
application. It's also worth noting that you can't maximize Access on one
display and then place a form from that application on the other display.

HTH,

Rob