Chung Lee:
"Franz, one more multi-monitor question:
Say I have two monitors and I am hooked up to the net, on each monitor is a auto refresh web page, such as CBS MarketWatch and Quote.com. Will they reload themselves at specified intervals regardless which monitor the mouse pointer's at?
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I vote sort-of yes.
Basically, the two monitors are viewed as one big monitory by the OS. what you are doing is running two programs (one on each monitor). As you know, only one window (the selected one) is active at any time. The selected window is being refreshed. If you want to have the other window refreshed, you need to click on it. There is one exception to this and that is if the program actually runs both windows. For example, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc have a main window where you do your work and what appears to be windows for tools (telling you the density of the area you are in, the x,y coordinates, etc). These are actually "tear-off" tool bars that you can move around. In this case you can move the tools to the second monitor, work on the first monitor and the tool bars will refresh automatically on the second monitor as you move around and change things.
In summary, if you have a business program that will refresh two windows on one monitor (which is possible if they are treated like tear-off toolbars), it will do it on two (or three or four) monitors. Otherwise you can get the refresh but you have to click the window you want refreshed - not too bad - you just sit there going click-click-click-click and you are constantly up to date. |
