Okay, I just spent several happy hours trying to set up an external monitor on MQ PC with four additional windows. So I want to share with the community what I learned:
1) The monitor must be to the right of your main monitor, for reasons I'll explain in a sec.
2) Set up the monitor in Windows to "extend desktop". You may not be able to position it vertically so the cursor tracks smoothly across visually because of the offset issue - explained below, but start out that way. You can elevate your laptop a few inches if that's important.
3) In MQ, Setup-View System-View Monitors, make sure 1st External Monitor is enabled. Set the resolution to the best resolution of the monitor. This doesn't seem to be that important, because you can tweak the size of the screen in the width and height boxes.
4) Set up and record a view, either with 1 full window or a combination of windows to fill the external screen. Play with the Width and Height numbers (I sized mine very slightly smaller than the actual monitor resolution, so the windows wouldn't bleed off the edges) and the offsets (Left and Top boxes) until the windows are centered. The reason the monitor has to be on the right is that the offsets don't seem to take negative numbers, so you can't move your windows to the left or down, only right and up.
Chamsys people, if you're reading this, I'd love some real feedback to see if I'm hitting the right notes here... screen real estate is VERY important to functionality of the program. I want to instantly check the status of my show elements, and I hate having to switch views constantly.
1) The monitor must be to the right of your main monitor, for reasons I'll explain in a sec.
2) Set up the monitor in Windows to "extend desktop". You may not be able to position it vertically so the cursor tracks smoothly across visually because of the offset issue - explained below, but start out that way. You can elevate your laptop a few inches if that's important.
3) In MQ, Setup-View System-View Monitors, make sure 1st External Monitor is enabled. Set the resolution to the best resolution of the monitor. This doesn't seem to be that important, because you can tweak the size of the screen in the width and height boxes.
4) Set up and record a view, either with 1 full window or a combination of windows to fill the external screen. Play with the Width and Height numbers (I sized mine very slightly smaller than the actual monitor resolution, so the windows wouldn't bleed off the edges) and the offsets (Left and Top boxes) until the windows are centered. The reason the monitor has to be on the right is that the offsets don't seem to take negative numbers, so you can't move your windows to the left or down, only right and up.
Chamsys people, if you're reading this, I'd love some real feedback to see if I'm hitting the right notes here... screen real estate is VERY important to functionality of the program. I want to instantly check the status of my show elements, and I hate having to switch views constantly.