Re: Using XyWrite with XP OS

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

I don't know what's better or worse, but I do pretty much the same
multiple windows thing on a single sorta big (17 inch) LCD
monitor. And it does have the virtue of leaving my actual desk
fairly clear for other things. I do, to be sure, use the highest
screen resolution--but, for me at least, that's a good and
comfortable thing anyway.
But, of course, there are problems. With my particular set-up--the
above monitor on a Pentium 4 with Windows XP--I cannot run XY in
graphics mode or in any full-screen mode--it freezes the window. It
works fine in the Windows modes and prints fine. (On my wife's
XP/Celeron with 15 inch LCD XY works fine in all modes--but I don't
have the higher resolution that makes multiple windows
practical. And on my Dell Inspiron XP/P4 laptop it all works fine
[again, without the higher resolution]--except for the lack of a
parallel port.)

                        David


At 08:56 PM 9/9/2005, you wrote:
> Harry B. wrote,
> > > And any of you who are not
> > > working with two or more monitors in 2K or XP are really missing out.
>
> Robert replied:
> > Elucidate, please! What can you do -- what do _you_ do -- with two or more
> > monitors? As opposed, say, to two windows on the Desktop, or Alt-Tab, etc.?
> There are many times when I need to look up something in one program
> (usually in a web browser) that I'm going to use in regard to
> another program--e.g., Googling a fact or a quote to drop into a
> Xywrite-produced article, or into an email. With one monitor I have
> to either shrink down one or both windows to an awkwardly small
> size, or Alt-Tab back and forth. But when I Alt-Tab back and forth,
> one of them is usually hidden.
> A non-Xy example is when I'm having some difficulty with a program
> and I want to search the web to get info on solving it. With a
> single monitor, I have to remember the information I've found when I
> turn to applying it to fixing my problem. With two monitors, the
> info in the browser is on one monitor while the problem program is
> also open on the other, so I can look back and forth.
> As you are probably aware, the dual-monitor set-up is totally
> seamless: the mouse moves the cursor back and forth between the two
> (which I set up right next to each other, abutting each other)
> without the slightest hiccup. You can even drag a given program's
> open window to be partly displayed on one monitor, partly on another.
> It's like doubling your screen real-estate. This is one of those
> things that once you've tried you'll never go back. With flat panel
> displays so cheap, it's really worth it. But you probably have an
> old extra monitor around somewhere to test it out on. I do recommend
> putting them right next to each other.
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx