[Gvsig_english] dual monitor and gvsig

[Jordi Torres]

Hi Paolo,

You can use  to extDockingSkin, bundled with 3D extension. It gives you a
configurable GUI and the possibility of working with dual monitor, docking
and undocking  windows.

Cheers.


2012/3/19 VT <notister at gmail.com>

> Ben,
> Yes, it is a very weak point. During use it's normal to open a lot of
> child windows and it's very difficult to manage them in one monitor. IMHO
> at this point it could be more useful the possibility to fix windows in the
> interface instead of using obsolete arcview3.x styled floating childs...
>
> thanks
>
> Paolo
>
>
> 2012/3/17 Benjamin Ducke <benducke at fastmail.fm>
>
>> Paolo,
>>
>> IMHO, this is the weakest point about the gvSIG
>> GUI.
>>
>> The problem is that gvSIG uses its own window
>> management, based on an MDI (multiple document
>> interface) called Andami (correct me if I am
>> wrong here). This works OK for single
>> monitors, but it gets in the way of the operating
>> system's window manager, so multi-monitor setups
>> will not work well.
>>
>> The best solution IMHO would be to get rid of the
>> Andami MDI and let the operating system handle the
>> application windows (which it does much better than
>> any custom MDI ever could, anyway).
>>
>> However, Andami is deeply embedded in gvSIG,
>> so I am afraid we are stuck with it for the
>> foreseeable future.
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> On 03/17/2012 10:06 AM, VT wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > is there the possibility to split gvsig interface in two monitors (i.e.
>> > tables and views in separate monitors)?
>> > if not, is it in future to-do list? I think this could be very useful
>> > and strongly improves software usability.
>> >
>> > thanks in advance
>> >
>> > Paolo
>> >
>> >
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