Dual-monitor support for MapInfo

[Naz Ali]

Is there an option to view different windows (map window, layout windoe, browser) on the 2nd monitor? I have dual monitor but cannot find the option to set it up. Any suggestions?

[MattC]

I was wondering the same thing myself, Naz. The "MapInfo Professional
11.5 Data Sheet" makes mention of "Additionally, MapInfo Professional
provides better support for dual monitors." Not sure what exactly
that means, as the only mention of dual monitors in the 11.5 User
Guide is the suggestion to "...try dragging the Table List/Layer
Control window on to the second monitor. This arrangement allows more
room for map windows on the first monitor." My 11.5 trial ended and
we won't be receiving the full 11.5 version here until a few months
down the road, but I don't recall any setting to use two monitors,
other than manually sizing the MapInfo window across both monitors.

http://www.pb.com/docs/US/pdf/Microsite/MapInfo-Professional/MapInfo-Professinal-v11.5-Data-Sheet.pdf

[Peter Horsbøll Møller]

I don't have a two monitor setup myself, but I don't think that you can drag your "data windows" (Map window, Browser window etc.) outside the MapInfo Pro application window.

The only windows that can be dragged outside are "floating" windows such as the Layer Control, Table List, Info window etc.

You can however with the WindowHelper tool make some of your "data windows" into dockable, floating windows.

Read more about the WindowHelper tool here where you also can find a link to download the tool: A new release of the WindowHelper tool

Peter Horsbøll Møller
Pitney Bowes Software

2013/3/5 MattC <mfca...@gmail.com>

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[Mats Elfström]

Hi!
I do have a dual monitor setup, but an older Mapinfo version. So I cannot judge the 'better support for dual monitors' in 11.5.
However, with the version I have it is no problem to extend the MI main window over both monitors, simply by dragging the edges, and then I can position my frames as I please over the whole double screen area.
Are you asking for more than that?

HTH, Mats.E

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[Sue Beetlestone (CSP - Administrative & Support Services)]

Hello All

I regularly use Mapinfo 11.5 with layer control/table list on my second monitor – as long as they are undocked (either separately or together) you can drag them onto it.

 

Sue

 

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[Eric Blasenheim]

Adding to Peter said, the improvements were the ability to take any of the dockable windows, like Layer Control, TableList,  Move Map To or any custom windows and move them outside the Pro application window space, in this case to the second monitor. 

You have always been able to create the application window unmaximized and drag it across multiple monitors.  You can then put certain map windows on each monitor but it is a manual process and things link menus or tool bars only appear on one. As Peter said, you cannot take a map or browser window outside the application as long as they are MDI windows, which is the way these windows work unless one uses the WindowHelper tool.

 

Eric Blasenheim

Pitney Bowes Software

On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:04:39 PM UTC-5, Naz Ali wrote:

[Tom Probert]

Hello Everyone,

 

Let me mention a couple of other improvements.  Prior to MI Pro v11.5 if you moved the MI Pro from your main monitor on to a second screen, dialog boxes such as File > Open, Table Structure, and most (if not all) others would appear on the main monitor instead of on the  second monitor where MI Pro was running.  Now MI Pro will behave better.  The slightly complicated part of this is that some of the dialog boxes like Layer Control can have different behaviour.  I’d need someone with more detailed knowledge to cover that off.  Mainly it is about when the software remembers a dialog position and when it doesn’t.

 

Another facet to all of this work is that in the Window Menu in MI Pro v11.5 we added a new command called Recover Off Screen Windows.  Let’s say you are using two screens and you save a workspace where your Info tool and some other windows are on the second monitor.  Then let’s say you open this workspace again but the second screen is not available.  This command is a way to have MI Pro move the windows onto the screen so you can see them.  You no longer need to type the “Set Window…” command into the MapBasic window.

 

Tom Probert

Pitney Bowes Software

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[Williams, Bill (DPS)]

I can weigh in here – we have three monitors each and a NVIDIA quad card which allows you to drag the MIF window across two monitors and have the map and layout side by side on two and a spread sheet or something else on the other monitor.

 

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[Robert Crossley]

In 11.0x, you could do this but:

·         if you are working on dual monitors on a laptop,

·         and have your menu and message window on the other monitor,

·         and then unplug the extra monitor.

 

While your Mapinfo window happily moves onto the display that is active, the message and menu windows are somewhere off the screen, and of course you cannot drag them back until you plug in the other screen again.

 

This seems to have been fixed in 11.5, in that the child windows go back to inside the mapinfo application window when you remove the other display - could represent the improved support for duel screen support in 11.5.

 

 

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[Naz Ali]

Thanks everyone for your respons. I was hoping more in the sense to be able to view your Map Window on one screen and Layout Window on the other but I guess that's not something Pitney Bowes Software has yet looked into. I believe having these 2 widows side-by-side would be a more efficient way to view your final product (on the layout window) while still working on the map window(s).

[CDR Group]

Hi Naz

 

If you maximise MapInfo it fills one screen.

Do not maximise but drag the corner of MapInfo onto the second screen.

That way you can have your map window on one screen and layout on the other.

 

Regards

 

John Ievers

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[Uffe Kousgaard]

nice typo:

"2 widows side-by-side" !!

Naz Ali wrote:

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