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From: kempf@tci.bell-atl.com (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re^2: Multiple monitors (was: Xerox sues
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Date: 5 Jan 90 23:31:08 GMT
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gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>You must be joking.  Have you ever programmed the Mac for multiple
>monitors? 

I have.
 
>	   It's no cakewalk.  

What?? It's not that difficult.  Took longer to install a second
monitor to test it with.

>				I am just beginning to write code for
>multiple monitors, and it seems to be the same old stupid story:

>1.  Check if you have multiple monitors. 

Why on earth would you care??
 
>2.  If so, then invoke all sorts of special-case software to deal with
>them (like the size a window may zoom, and the way you paint the
>desktop).

-BZZZZT!-  Sorry, try again.  Apple has a rather simple interface that
allows multiple monitors without all this pain.  I recently wrote the
upgrade to a terminal package.  One of the features for this upgrade
was to allow the terminal window to move (no flames -- I did not write
the original).  Part of making it move included making it work
correctly with multiple monitors.  In the end, there were NO SPECIAL
CASES FOR MULTIPLE MONITORS.  (There was some special case software
involved.  I wanted the keyboard lights to work.  The Mac Plus and the
Standard Keyboard don't have lights.  Thus my one special case.)

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