Multi Monitor not working

[stardriver]

Hi,

first let me express my gratitude for this awesome frontend. This is absolutely what i've been looking for since i built my cab.

Just one question:

How may i get marquee support for my upper monitor? 'General'-'Multiple Monitors': Enabled, Multi-Mon Plugin: Enabled, it "sees" my second screen, but does not display anything. In Fullscreen Mode, just a minimal amount of the wheel is visible in the lower right corner of my upper screen. Layout is "nevato". Anyone with the exacrt same problem?

[hermine.potter]

@stardriver
you mean a dynamic marquee changer similar this or here, didn't you?
i'm not able to configure a working setting too. help

[stardriver]

yes, thats what i was trying to realize. maybe someone has a workaround?

[Thorvald]

I'm also working on this and attempting to debug the multimon.nut plugin.   I am getting the following errors when I try to use it:

Code: [Select]

Starting Attract-Mode v2.2.1 (Windows)
Config: E:\attractmode\attract.cfg

*** Initializing display: 'Mame'
 - Loaded master romlist 'mame' in 338 ms (10372 entries kept, 0 discarded)
 - Constructed 28 filters in 135 ms (290416 comparisons)
Debug-->Monitors Found: 2
 + MultiMon Plug-in: Using Monitor #2 (1920x1080)

AN ERROR HAS OCCURED [wrong type (unknown expected, got N5Sqrat5ClassI9FeMonitorNS_13NoConstructorEEE)]

CALLSTACK
*FUNCTION [constructor()] E:\attractmode\modules\fade.nut line [49]
*FUNCTION [constructor()] E:\attractmode\plugins/MultiMon.nut line [78]
*FUNCTION [main()] E:\attractmode\plugins/MultiMon.nut line [108]

LOCALS
[target] INSTANCE
[height] 1080
[width] 1920
[y] 0
[x] 0
[label] "flyer"
[this] INSTANCE
[my_config] TABLE
[tag] "mon2"
[i] 1
[this] INSTANCE
[my_config] TABLE
[vargv] ARRAY
[this] TABLE

So currently trying to figure this out.

Cheers
  Tim

[Thorvald]

Ok I made a simple plugin to display an image on keypress, works fine.

However once I enable multi monitor support in .cfg ( multiple_monitors    yes ) and try to display the image on monitor #2 (index 1 in the array) using the fe.monitors[].add_image I get the error:

_image = fe.monitors[1].add_image( config["image"], 0, 0, fe.layout.width, fe.layout.height );

AN ERROR HAS OCCURED [wrong type (unknown expected, got N5Sqrat5ClassI9FeMonitorNS_13NoConstructorEEE)]


Similar error as the Multimon plugin.

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So something isn't happy at the moment.

[Thorvald]

Code: [Select]

Starting Attract-Mode v2.2.1 (Windows)
Config: E:\attractmode\attract.cfg

*** Initializing display: 'Mame'
 - Loaded master romlist 'mame' in 321 ms (10372 entries kept, 0 discarded)
 - Constructed 28 filters in 126 ms (290416 comparisons)
 + MultiMon Plug-in: Using Monitor #2 (1920x1080)

AN ERROR HAS OCCURED [this function isn't static]

CALLSTACK
*FUNCTION [constructor()] E:\attractmode\plugins/MultiMon2.nut line [60]
*FUNCTION [main()] E:\attractmode\plugins/MultiMon2.nut line [104]

LOCALS
[my_config] TABLE
[tag] "mon2"
[i] 1
[this] INSTANCE
[my_config] TABLE
[vargv] ARRAY
[this] TABLE

AN ERROR HAS OCCURED [wrong type (unknown expected, got N5Sqrat5ClassI9FeMonitorNS_13NoConstructorEEE)]


[hermine.potter]

Finally figured out, how it works on Windows.

Maybe this is helpful to anybody who wants Multiple Monitors / Multi Displays / extended screen view for artwork / show marquee on second 2nd screen:
Tested on :
AM version 2.3 (WinXP, Win7, Win10) 
AM version 2.4 (Windows 7, Windows 10)

>this is my setup:


>settings in Windows:
-two displays (windows is set to extended view)
first display : Windows primary screen; shows AM
second display : extended; shows marquee artwork

>settings in AM:
-start AM > press TAB key > General > Window Mode > set to 'Fillscreen (Default)' or 'Fullscreen Mode'

-close AM

-start AM > press TAB key > General > Enable Multiple Monitors : Yes

-close AM

-start AM > press TAB key > Plug-Ins > MultiMon : Enabled

if something is wrong/not correct with your cable installation, you only see this window (maybe your cable is broken => check):


if everything is wired correct, you see more options. In my case I've chosen marquee artwork for second display:


>other layouts:
works with the standard layouts and own/user layouts too.
Tested with
cockpit theme
robospin

[RetroDadUK]

I'm trying to get this set up on AM running on Ubuntu 19.04, but it somehow keeps switching the display settings back to single display (with my external monitor - connected by VGA).

Any pointers on how to get Multimon working on Linux would be appreciated!

[pixelsss]

Finally figured out, how it works on Windows.

Maybe this is helpful to anybody who wants Multiple Monitors / Multi Displays / extended screen view for artwork / show marquee on second 2nd screen:
Tested on :
AM version 2.3 (WinXP, Win7, Win10) 
AM version 2.4 (Windows 7, Windows 10)

>this is my setup:


>settings in Windows:
-two displays (windows is set to extended view)
first display : Windows primary screen; shows AM
second display : extended; shows marquee artwork

>settings in AM:
-start AM > press TAB key > General > Window Mode > set to 'Fillscreen (Default)' or 'Fullscreen Mode'

-close AM

-start AM > press TAB key > General > Enable Multiple Monitors : Yes

-close AM

-start AM > press TAB key > Plug-Ins > MultiMon : Enabled

if something is wrong/not correct with your cable installation, you only see this window (maybe your cable is broken => check):


if everything is wired correct, you see more options. In my case I've chosen marquee artwork for second display:


>other layouts:
works with the standard layouts and own/user layouts too.
Tested with
cockpit theme
robospin

Crazy this little guide worked 100% 4 year later. jut got it working without any issues. Thank you for taking the time.