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Hi all,
Has anyone implemented code that will move a Jade form to a different monitor? This is for a customer facing screen in a point of sale situation.

Thanks,
Allistar.

Can't you just set the Form::left attribute? If your resolution is 1280 x 768 and left = 0 on the main monitor, on the left monitor you would set left to -1280. If your secondary monitor is on the right, you would set left to 1280.

Hi John,
Yes, that's what we ended up doing. It only works if the monitors are laid out simply (e.g. to the left of, above etc). I was hoping for a call to something like "enumMonitors" which we would then display in a combo, and then "setWindowMonitor" to force a window to a specified monitor.

Thanks for the response,
Allistar.

There are some Windows APIs to do stuff like that

If you don't want to work out calls to that API, you could potentially use Window::getMonitorArea for the form, and then call a recursive routine that looks at the 9 areas around that monitor by adding/subtracting the height/width of that monitor from the current top/left of the form, and then call Window::getMonitorArea. If it has the same values as a prior monitor, there's no monitor on that 'side' of the current monitor or you have previously processed that monitor. If it has different values to any prior monitor, it's a new monitor and you can then recurse back into the method with that new monitor as the 'starting point'. It's a bit of a kludge, but it should find 'all' the uniquely positioned monitors in short order and you can then give the users a combo of the 'available' monitors in that system.

Here's the results of this type of routine on my laptop with two monitors connected: And here's what it looks like with all three monitors active: Cheers,
BeeJay.