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Todd Slaughter 2009-07-29 12:46
I have an application in which I need to take full-desktop screencaps, which span three identical 1024x1280 (portrait) monitors side-by-side. I'll be capturing this setup with Adobe Captivate.
On playback, I will overlay an image of three monitor bezels, and I don't want the bezels to cover active pixels, so I'd like to capture with "gaps" between the monitors. This is just the sort of gap that appears when capturing a full desktop with offset monitors or different-resolution monitors.
Windows alone won't allow the kind of gap I need. Windows will snap the monitors to (0,0) (1024,0) and (2048,0) but I really need to put them at (0,0) (1124,0) and (2248,0) for example, so that I have a 100-pixel gap between each.
Because I'm using Captivate, which not only captures the images but all of the mouse movements and actions as well, it's not practical to cut a regular capture apart. All of the related items would then have to be moved by hand.
I haven't installed and tried the UltraMon trial yet. This is a client's machine and I only have one shot at this, so I want to know if this is an available feature before I visit the client.
Thank you very much
Todd Slaughter
The Breakaway Group
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Christian Studer 2009-07-30 10:53
As far as I know that's not possible, Windows requires that each monitor is connected to another monitor at least in a single point.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Todd Slaughter 2009-08-03 07:28
Thanks for the definitive reply. Let me ask a followup question. Is it possible to create a pair of "phantom" displays, each 100 pixels wide, between the others? That way Windows would be happy, seeing five displays that all connect, but the extra displays wouldn't actually exist and would capture as black areas. Is such a thing possible? Can UltraMon help make it happen?
Todd Slaughter
The Breakaway Group
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Todd Slaughter 2009-08-03 07:58
Actually it wouldn't matter what appears on the "phantom" displays. It will get covered up anyway. It could be black, noise, an error, or anything else. I just need to separate the other screens.
Todd Slaughter
The Breakaway Group
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Christian Studer 2009-08-03 08:18
In theory yes, with a virtual video card driver, but I'm not aware of any application which does this.
But this probably wouldn't fix your problem, with the application stretched across the whole desktop it would also cover the virtual monitors.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Todd Slaughter 2009-08-03 08:36
Actually the window is in three separate windows. The window on the left monitor is the parent and the others are children, and each is maximized to fill its monitor. So the phantom displays should work. But if YOU don't even know how to do it, I'm not going down that road.
I'm investigating an alternative solution now, which is to run the monitors at a higher resolution than I need, and to scale the windows down, so that I have the necessary "gaps." The first problem I foresee is that the windows won't be maximized so they'll look slightly different than they do in normal operation. My client may be able to live with this though. I may even be able to fix that with AutoHotKey. Thanks for all your help. I think this approach is my best bet at this point.
Todd Slaughter
The Breakaway Group
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