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Using multiple displays

Jomar Bueyes — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:55:03 -0400

Dear Matlab-ers,

Is there a way to have Matlab display figures on a screen other than
the main display and/or to let Matlab know that there are two screens?
I am currently using two displays on a laptop and the second display
is much larger, so I'd like the figures to show in that display. The
only way I've been able to do it is to move the figures by hand to the
second display, the next time the Matlab script is run, the figures
are already open and they are refreshed on the second monitor.

Thanks,

Jomar

Re: Using multiple displays

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:18:18 -0400

In article <1186084503.195534.135860@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Jomar Bueyes <jomarbueyes@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Is there a way to have Matlab display figures on a screen other than
>the main display and/or to let Matlab know that there are two screens?
>I am currently using two displays on a laptop and the second display
>is much larger, so I'd like the figures to show in that display. The
>only way I've been able to do it is to move the figures by hand to the
>second display, the next time the Matlab script is run, the figures
>are already open and they are refreshed on the second monitor.

After you move one of the figures by hand, get() the Position
property of the moved figure and see if it gives you anything
useful. Create a second figure and set it's Position to the
same as the first figure and see if it gets moved to the second screen.

Also, check what you get back for get(0,'ScreenSize')
--
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person
could believe in them. -- George Orwell

Re: Using multiple displays

Jomar Bueyes — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:47:55 -0400

On Aug 2, 3:18 pm, rober...@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson)
wrote:
> In article <1186084503.195534.135...@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> Jomar Bueyes <jomarbue...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to have Matlab display figures on a screen other than
> >the main display and/or to let Matlab know that there are two screens?
> >I am currently using two displays on a laptop and the second display
> >is much larger, so I'd like the figures to show in that display. The
> >only way I've been able to do it is to move the figures by hand to the
> >second display, the next time the Matlab script is run, the figures
> >are already open and they are refreshed on the second monitor.
>
> After you move one of the figures by hand, get() the Position
> property of the moved figure and see if it gives you anything
> useful. Create a second figure and set it's Position to the
> same as the first figure and see if it gets moved to the second screen.
>
> Also, check what you get back for get(0,'ScreenSize')
> --
> There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person
> could believe in them. -- George Orwell

Hi George,

Thank you for your response. The get(0, 'screensize') gives the width
of the two monitors added and the height of the largest one. With
Figure 1 filling out the 2nd monitor, get(1, 'position') gives the
horizontal position as one pixel more than the 1st monitor size. I'm
not sure how the vertical position relates to the size of the
monitors. I guess I could use this information to programatically set
the position of the figures on the 2nd monitor. It would be
cumbersome, but it would work.

BTW. I did not mention before. I'm using Matlab 7.4 under Mac OS 10.4.

Thanks again

Jomar.

Re: Using multiple displays

us — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:27:52 -0400

Jomar Bueyes:
<SNIP from <walter> to <george>...

>> <walter>'s stuff... ending with a quote...
>> There are some ideas so wrong that only a very
intelligent person could believe in them -- George Orwell

> Hi George...

now this is truly <orwellian>...
us