I'm using the command line option to launch a slideshow referencing a dir. The computer has dual monitors and I'd like to be able to launch a different slideshow on each monitor. The slideshow-exe switch for selecting a monitor doesn't work for this. Anyone think of a way I can do it or think it would make a good feature request? Keep in mind this all has to be automated.
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Manually, this is easy. I just tried and you can launch two copies of IV, drag one to each monitor, and run slideshows. Automatic is the tricky part.
It looks like IV saves the window location in the i_view32.ini file in the [WinPosition] section, xKoord and yKoord parameters. I just ran an experiment where I first launched IV on one monitor, then (while the first copy of IV was running) changed the INI file to have the coordinates of the second monitor, and finally launched a second copy of IV. I ended up with slide shows on each monitor. I got the desired xKoord and yKoord values by manually moving the IV window to each location and noting the values stored in the INI file after each move. So it should be possible to write a script that starts an IV slideshow with one INI file, copies in a different INI file, then starts a second IV slideshow.
It?s also likely that two installations of IV might work since each install has it?s own INI file.
Not as slick as having it all built-in to IV, but it should work.
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