program for 2 monitors

I am writing a program for our church that is similiar to Powerpoint in the since that you can edit on one monitor and display on the other. The problem is what call do I use to tell the program to display on the second monitor. I use windows 98 extended desktop but I am not sure how to tell the program to use the second monitor.

Help!!

Keith Kelly

Using 2 monitors displays different content??It's impossible thing..U can use 2 pc,one displays,and another edits;make a program to sync 2 pc's powerpoint files..

No it's not impossible, in fact it's quite useful to have multiple monitors displaying different stuff.

Unfortunately, I don't know how you program multiple monitors

Nothing special is needed to display on other monitors. Just treat it as one big virtual screen. If you have two 1024x768 monitors side-by-side then open a windows that is 2048 pixels wide, or maximise the window, or open two windows, one with top-left corner at 0,0 and the other at 1024,0 (pixels, not twips :)

Here is some useful info for multiple monitors under vb. A class to allow you to get virtual screen dimensions, functions to determine which monitor an arbitrary RECT is on, etc. Also supplies some extra constants for GetSystemMetrics API call.

http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...s/q194/5/78.asp

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There may be some issues if you are using VB5 or earlier... popup menus appear on the main screen even if the cursor is on another screen... dialogs appear on the main screen even if the app window is on another screen... stuff like that.

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