Resolving monitor name in Windows (w/D3D)
category: code [glöplog]
Thing probably created an OGL context across the entire desktop space?
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Gargaj: I don't know what you mean by "my latter two points"; I disregarded all points in your previous post as FUD. So only the imaginary problems are left the way I see them, and I'm not going to inconvenience myself due to things that aren't real problems.
let's flip it around then - why is dualscreen more convenient than cloning? :)
Democompos - an exact science where there isn't another way to do it!
On a complete sidetrack but since "you're here" anyways, kb_, did you run Revision's 32k executable music compo on the compo-machine or was a less powerfull PC used? Not that it matters all that much now, but i've been curious ever since ;-)
I can't even remember whether we played the songs live or used pre-rendered WAVs like in the other music compos... sorry. And all HDs in concern have been wiped and/or archived someplace far, so no way to reconstruct it exactly.
(didn't I apologize already for screwing up your song? :)
(didn't I apologize already for screwing up your song? :)
No need to apologize even if the problem was on compoteams part. I had a blast anyways. The problem wouldn't exist if we hadn't had the usual time-to-deadline/size issue. You did in fact apologize for playing the entry/showing the wrong slide as soon as you found out ;-)
Aaaand back on topic (sorry for the detour)
Aaaand back on topic (sorry for the detour)
plek: yeah, i've a strong feeling it was opengl, and it was one of the early accelerated demos so I guess people weren't expecting things like dual screen setups :) Actually it was pretty cool to watch like that, but it'd really fuck up if one screen was a projector.
Gargaj: As I already stated, I find it convenient to be able to "hide the mess" (folders of contributions, clown porn etc) on a secondary monitor. But kb kind of hit the nail on the head; it's not that one way is superior to the other. It's that you disregard multi-monitor setups as useful for compo organizers, which I think is oversimplifying the problem.
As for the original topic, I'm not sure if I'm going to bother spending more time on identifying monitors more closely than I do now; it seems to work fine the way it is. Perhaps if my OCD kicks in, though...
As for the original topic, I'm not sure if I'm going to bother spending more time on identifying monitors more closely than I do now; it seems to work fine the way it is. Perhaps if my OCD kicks in, though...
hehe yeah it is a little nutty i'll give you that :)
I refined the code quite a bit (it's on StackOverflow too) but I'll repost it as soon as it's had some testing. Most importantly I made it all UTF16 (since marshalling 16-bit ID strings from and to Win functions == the way for said platform), and then some.
ttyl.
ttyl.