PowerPoint in WVPC
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From: Karl E. Peterson on 15 Apr 2010 14:20 Robert Comer wrote: > Just saw a workaround in the WVPC forum, make your main monitor the rightmost > monitor in the resolution settings and your seamless app will no longer span > both monitors. OMG! That works! Where'd you find it? -- Now, I just gotta move all my icons from one monitor to the other.
From: Karl E. Peterson on 15 Apr 2010 14:21 Chirag wrote: >> But monitor "0" is the virtual display, that covers the whole thing. It's >> coordinates would be: >> >> 0,0 2559,0 >> >> *0* >> >> 0,1023 2559,1023 >> >> That's the one being given to the seamless apps, when they inquire about >> monitor dimensions. This also explains why their popup dialogs (msgbox's, >> etc) so often appear split between the two monitors. They're simply >> centering themselves on what they see as "the" monitor. > > In that case, for slide shows, all you need to do is resize the slide show to > half of its width. I quickly wrapped this up in an add-in - WVPC Assistant - > http://officeone.mvps.org/wvpcassist/WVPCAssistant10.exe. Install it within > your WVPC instance. Now Whenever you start PowerPoint slide show within your > WVPC instance, the slide show will be resized to half so that it shows up on > the first monitor. Current limitations of the add-in: (1) It works only with > 2 monitors, (2) Both the monitors need to be of the same resolution, (3) It > doesn't care if you run it within WVPC or on regular Windows - it just > resizes the slide show in first half. Will give that a shot! -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 15 Apr 2010 14:22 Steve Rindsberg wrote: > Thanks ... > > Not sure what I'll use it for, but something will come up, no doubt. > <g> It's the /only/ way to run 16-bit apps in x64, for one thing. Also, it seems FrontPage is totally hosed on w7. And, one of the cooler uses I've put it to is this very one - having side by side installs of different Office versions. :-) -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Karl E. Peterson on 15 Apr 2010 14:24 senn wrote: >> that starts up >> (in the background, unseen) > > You feel the minutes don't you? <g>. Heh, on the first instance, yeah. But if you're like me, and will tend to have 3 or 4 FrontPage instances running at any given time, as well as a couple/few Words, Excels or PowerPoints, they start to pop just as quickly as any other. <g> -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org
From: Robert Comer on 15 Apr 2010 14:27
> Yeah, the more I thought about it last night, that realization dawned on > me. That would definitely seem to be the better enhancement request, but > I'm guessing the odds of that are pretty darned low, huh? You never know, if you request it and give a darn good reason most people need it, they're pretty open to suggestions. > Whazzat? RAIL is an RDP way of sharing application windows, it's not just a WVPC thing. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc239612%28PROT.10%29.aspx -- Bob Comer "Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message news:OvCDOfM3KHA.556(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Robert Comer wrote: >> I very much understand what you mean, but I think WVPC would have to be >> multiple monitor aware (and assignable to specific monitors) for you to >> get what you want, and I'm afraid that's not the case. > > Yeah, the more I thought about it last night, that realization dawned on > me. That would definitely seem to be the better enhancement request, but > I'm guessing the odds of that are pretty darned low, huh? > >> You can cheat by not using full screen mode and just sizing the window >> correctly I would think... > > That works well, except with apps that decide for themselves. Like > PowerPoint in slideshow mode. I'm going to try Chirag's add-in, and see > how that goes, though. > >> I wonder if RAIL has this problem independent of WVPC... > > Whazzat? > > -- > .NET: It's About Trust! > http://vfred.mvps.org > > |