Different items on different displays?!

[Tom Speirs]

Hi all,

I have tried a lot of front ends recently for my arcade machine which I am about to begin construction of, and I found this one and am very impressed.

My main question is, there is an option in there to enable the second display, which I have done as I have two monitors (Which run at different res's unfortunately), but instead of copying what the first display shows, is there a way to get the second display to simply for example, show a fullscreen picture of the game being played or being looked at in the list?!!

If there is a way of doing this, I will glady pay the $18!!

LOL

Hi, there's no current way of doing this, but it's a cool feature request, and I'm moving this post to the Feature request topic.

Anyone else keen on this kind of functionality?

[WTB]

Hell yes!!! I originally had plans for a second screen in my machine. I wanted to create a flash app that would cycle through and display controls, snaps etc based on the game being played. If this could be integrated into GameEx... wow!

-Matt

[Tom Speirs]

Hell yes!!! I originally had plans for a second screen in my machine. I wanted to create a flash app that would cycle through and display controls, snaps etc based on the game being played. If this could be integrated into GameEx... wow!

  -Matt

Anyone else? I'm getting tempted.

[EMKO]

yea that looks good

[headkaze]

The only practical problem I can see is not being able to use video card acceleration on the second screen. Unless I am mistaken DX can only buffer on one screen, the other screen will be purely software drawn. ie. Slow.

I don't see the point really. I don't see many people using this feature, nor can I imagine people putting a second monitor in their cabinets to make use of this feature. Sorry Jellyman, but why add something that 1% of the users will use. It seems like a fair amount of work for such a small amount of people. Yes it would be a cool option, but I think there are probably better things to add during the precious time Tom spends on coding GameEx (but this is just IMHO).

Support for outputting pure GameEx on a second screen could be worthwhile though. I can imagine it being used for outputting to a projector. Then you would have to add the support to move launched game windows to the second screen which won't work for DX in exclusive mode. That opens another can of worms and again a feature that only a small amount of users would actually find practical use for. In any case, sorry to put down your feature request.