Force Application to go to Second Screen
Hello,
We have a badly written application that does not have the same normal functionality of of Win7 Application window. You cannot minimize, maximize,m resize, move and so on. Yes BADLY Written. Anyway I have a user that would like this application
to automatically launch on his 2nd LCD screen. Is this possible to add some sort of string or something to the start line for the .exe properties?
Win7 64 bit Enterprise
Thanks,
Rich
April 16th, 2012 12:29pm
It is not easy to troubleshoot your "badly" written application. However when this application does not affect video driver behaviour, then chances are that the video driver/software allows for splitting/cloning image.
As to the application, the better place for digging deeper into application properties and design, there are specialized MSDN forums
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/visualstudio
Regards
Milos
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April 16th, 2012 4:34pm
If you knew how hard it is to write software you would not be so hostile.
Without the source code its impossible to change the program behavior
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April 16th, 2012 4:42pm
I am not wanting to troubleshoot the application. It was created by a separate vendor. I am just hoping there is just some modification I can make to the shortcut that would launch on screen 2.
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April 16th, 2012 4:42pm
I am not wanting to troubleshoot the application. It was created by a separate vendor. I am just hoping there is just some modification I can make to the shortcut that would launch on screen 2.
Not possible
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April 16th, 2012 4:49pm
Agree with Vegan Fanatic. Its not possible to change application behavior without source code access.
By the way, which application are you referring here ? Without knowing the details its hard to predict things !
You might as well want to approach vendor directly or ask this question in their forum (if applicable).If it looks good, Eat it ! Likewise, If you don't know the answers, don't hesitate to ask questions !!
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April 16th, 2012 10:41pm
Hi,
Since you cannot move this application, it is unable to launch on screen 2. I suggest you need to contact your vendor to debug their application to make it possible to move in Windows 7.
Hope it helps.Vincent Wang
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April 17th, 2012 3:34am
I do have a question though. When you open say Office or Groupwise or really almost any application I use on Win7 if I move it to the 2nd screen and close it. The next time the application opens on the 2nd screen. I did not change any source
code for the application? More like a registry setting I would think, right? So to me I would think this would have to be possible without changing any source code...but maybe I am just looking at this from the wrong angle. Thanks for your
answers.
I have asked the vendor and they seem like it is not a big deal as this has been happening since the initial release of the application. "Hostile" when you pay some one a ton of money to make a application you would think it would be in the same design
as most Window's Application Windows. :)
The application is called Sourcelink and made by Fiserv. It a company specific written application. If it was a well know vendor I would have went to their website. :)
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April 17th, 2012 7:22am
if you are using a spanned desktop, windows may put some windows on the second screen
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April 17th, 2012 3:29pm
Application will remember that setting only if it is wrritten to the registry or some other configuration file.
If your application doesn't check for that then it won't matter if you have that recorded or not.
I can give you example of IE.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Window_Placement
This is how the IE will remember where to open nex time.
So your application has to have the key like that somewhere in the registry in order to be able to remembar where to open next time.
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April 17th, 2012 4:43pm
That makes sense...thank you! I verified with the vendor that they will plan on making it a normal window's application window in the next update.
Thanks for all your help.
April 18th, 2012 7:36am