Multimonitor multi-window?

Being the days of cheap monitors, I have a few on my desk. I'm an Aardwolf player with a pixel problem.

I'm _NOT_ currently a MUSH user, and I'm wondering if there is a way I can split windows across displays. It's really the only 'comfort' thing I can do with my current client. I like having a lot of data in front of me, and the resolution allowed by only one monitor is not enough to have everything I would like.

I currently keep minimap, channels, main mud output window, and a status window on my main monitor. I tend to have seperate windows dragged to the monitor on my right for other information. Group window, campaign/GQ mob lists, equipment identify data, etc, etc.

Thoughts? Is it possible to have information like this outside the 'main' window of MUSH?

-Robbo

The following suggestion applies to the Aardwolf MUSHclient Package:
Stretch the main window across both monitors, size the main text output area appropriately to fit on one monitor, then move the miniwindows over to the other side.

I tend not to care for that, particularly if I'm in eyefinity mode with bezel correction on... Just tends not to be so elegant in some scenarios, and the ability to pop windows out of the main would be really nice.

It's truly not critical functionality, it's just a comfort thing for me. I tend to write a lot of my own informational plugins and like to have extra data strewn about, stuffing it all in the one window doesn't _feel_ right to me. Just a comfort thing.

I don't see what this has to do with anything.


As far as I can tell this is like saying that you are uncomfortable having your desktop span multiple screens. Just treat the MUSHclient window as if it were your desktop.


There is no functional difference between having many subwindows or miniwindows strewn about a single maximized window and having many windows strewn about a single desktop.

Short answer. I have done so, I do not like how it looks or lays out with other programs I am running. If I did, I wouldn't have asked the question.

I'm well aware how to resize windows across multiple displays, that is not the issue. If I liked how that looked, I would not care, and I would be happily running MUSHclient at the moment. Because I don't care for how that looks and I am looking for more flexibility, I asked for other options.

MUSHclient was originally written in 1995 using Microsoft's MFC libraries. It uses the "window within a frame" concept where all the windows in the client are children of the main frame (the thing Fiendish suggests you resize).

It isn't trivial to change that, sorry.

In those days multi-monitor PCs where pretty-much unheard of, at least to me, and even the main monitor was usually pretty small (like 1024 x 768 or less).

Thanks for the detailed answer, Nick, much appreciated!