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davidsetton
June 6th, 2010, 07:22 PM
Anyone have a lua script that will force windows media center 7 to start in full screen on monitor 2?

Regards,

David
Mike C
June 7th, 2010, 06:04 AM
how about using command line switches?

http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/05/media-center-command-line-switches.html
davidsetton
June 7th, 2010, 06:40 AM
how about using command line switches?

http://www.hack7mc.com/2009/05/media-center-command-line-switches.html

Thanks for your suggestion Mike. I didn't see a command line switch that will start Media Center on monitor 2 although they did have one for full screen:

ehshell.exe /directmedia:general

This switch starts Windows Media Center in full-screen mode.
Mike C
June 7th, 2010, 07:44 AM
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

this might help

there are lua extensions in girder to do multimon stuff but i do not know if they work under windows 7. see the g help file.
davidsetton
June 7th, 2010, 11:33 AM
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

this might help

there are lua extensions in girder to do multimon stuff but i do not know if they work under windows 7. see the g help file.

Thanks Mike, but I was really looking for a way to do this without the need for another program. One solution that I had was to make my plasma screen my primary monitor (I have a GML to switch monitors), but I would like to avoid this by simply starting windows media center in full screen on monitor 2. The think that is difficult about WMC is it only responds to Girder actions when the window is in the forground.

All the best,

David
sirbooker
June 7th, 2010, 12:19 PM
i open MCE on win 7 then drag it over to the other monitor (tv)
make it fullscreen
when i close and reopen MCE it opens on the tv by default.

i have no control of touch screen on htpc unless i take it out of full screen mode.

just my 2 cents

Paul.
davidsetton
June 7th, 2010, 01:07 PM
i open MCE on win 7 then drag it over to the other monitor (tv)
make it fullscreen
when i close and reopen MCE it opens on the tv by default.

i have no control of touch screen on htpc unless i take it out of full screen mode.

just my 2 cents

Paul.

Hey Paul:

I noticed that you live in Vancouver. I am in Vancouver also.

I like to have full control over where things open and go full screen. That is why I use Girder. I like to have it be automated. I found an interesting program here:

http://www.mods.com.au/Maxifier/

I would like to control where media center opens using girder. Anyone else have any ideas?