Programming for multiple monitors

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Jeff Johnson

I'm testing some 3rd-party software and I noticed that the application
doesn't remember which monitor it was last running on and always opens on my
primary monitor. This got me thinking that if I were ever to write an app
for widespread distribution, I'd want to go the extra mile and add this
funcrtionality to it to give it that extra professional touch. So how do I
do it? What class, if any, would give me this kind of information? Do I have
to use P/Invoke?
 
I haven't tested it because I only have one monitor, but when your app
closes, just remember the last position it was on (Top, Left,
WindowState)... And when it starts again, put this position right back and
voilà!!

I used this since VB 3 and it always worked, so I don't see why it wouldn't
work anymore... ;)

good luck

ThunderMusic
 
Hi!

If you remember position, don't forget to check, if the saved position is
now valid. For example if you remove a monitor, or work with
terminalservice.

Wolfgang
 
Jeff said:
I'm testing some 3rd-party software and I noticed that the
application doesn't remember which monitor it was last running on and
always opens on my primary monitor. This got me thinking that if I
were ever to write an app for widespread distribution, I'd want to go
the extra mile and add this funcrtionality to it to give it that
extra professional touch. So how do I do it? What class, if any,
would give me this kind of information? Do I have to use P/Invoke?
Click to expand...

Normally, windows will remember, and if you use for example ultramon,
it works OK. My .NET application doesn't have any logic build in for
its main app location with multimonitor setups, but it starts up on the
monitor I closed it on, because windows takes care of that.

That's not true for child windows though. So if you have your main app
on monitor 2, and you open a dialog which is moved to monitor 1 by the
user, and you close the app, the dialog will be placed at monitor 2,
very likely (unless you choose the useless setting of letting windows
handle where the dialog pops up which is always not the location you
want it to be).

In that case, check out the DesktopBounds property of a form. :) Set
the saved DesktopBounds struct of a previous location it in the Load
event handler of the form and everything is good.

FB

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