Multiple Monitor Disappointment, from an Ex-Mac Guy

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May 10, 2005
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I’ve searched for this to no avail, so slap me if I’ve missed something:

I’m using Photoshop 7 with two monitors, and can’t get some of the application windows and toolbars to move the the second monitor. They’re obviously tied to some sort of underlying "pasteboard," or whatever, that can’t be extended to the second monitor. (Yes, I know that if I’ve got two same-sized monitors – which I don’t – I can stretch the "pasteboard" across both screens, but that’s idiotic: can’t these windows or toolbars move independent from one another?)

I’m enjoying the lack of Mac hype, but this is turning out to be a real problem. The Macromedia suite suffers from the same problem, and I’ve got a sinking sensation that the response to this question will have something to do with "underlying core code," or other such crap.

Please tell me I’m wrong, and that a platform I’ve just bought into has some respect for users of more than one monitor.

-thanks
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Jake
May 15, 2005
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I’ve searched for this to no avail, so slap me if I’ve missed something:
I’m using Photoshop 7 with two monitors, and can’t get some of the application windows and toolbars to move the the second monitor. They’re obviously tied to some sort of underlying "pasteboard," or whatever, that can’t be extended to the second monitor. (Yes, I know that if I’ve got two same-sized monitors – which I don’t – I can stretch the "pasteboard"
across
both screens, but that’s idiotic: can’t these windows or toolbars move independent from one another?)

I’m enjoying the lack of Mac hype, but this is turning out to be a real problem. The Macromedia suite suffers from the same problem, and I’ve got
a
sinking sensation that the response to this question will have something
to
do with "underlying core code," or other such crap.
Please tell me I’m wrong, and that a platform I’ve just bought into has
some
respect for users of more than one monitor.

-thanks

I use dual 19" LCDs, and while I have a couple of gripes regarding PS 7’s treatment of dual-monitor workspaces, I get most of what I need from it. What specific windows can you not get where you want them? If it’s the topmost integrated toolbar itself (which becomes the tool options bar in the view I use), then I know of no way to move it to the second monitor (or leave it on the primary monitor and move the image to the second monitor). As far as I know, one tool/options bar will have to be where the image is. What I do to maximize my workspace is move all my pallettes to my second monitor, close my status bar, and cycle through my screen views until my primary monitor contains only my image and the current tool option bar. The tool pallette (on my secondary monitor) then picks up the File/Edit/Image/Layer/etc . . . headers. It’s not perfect, but it gives me approximately 95% usable screen for my workspace. Like you, however, I’d lo ve to know how to take my image and make in the sole object on my secondary monitor. I also wonder how PS might behave differently depending on your video card and the capability of its software. I use an Nvidia 6800 and the nView s/w.

jm

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