Author Topic: Like multimon... but with more than one artwork selection? Is this possible?  (Read 3622 times)

Tetsujin

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Hi there,

I've been using Attract Mode for a long time as my base frontend, but it's been a very very long time since I made any changes to my basic personal layouts/worked in Squirrel, etc.

Recently I've been goofing off with the idea of an over/under dual screen setup and I got Multimon up and running easily enough with just marquee files. That made me wonder if it would be possible to have a second screen that pulls from multiple artwork folders to provide a broad info page while a game is running. Not just marquees, but flyers, cabinets etc.

Over in HS land, they seem to do this with a combination of add-on software (HyperMarquee, EDS, etc.) as this youtube video demonstrates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jkbICd4IM

I really don't want to use HS...

At first I thought I could just design a layout that spans 2 screens (1920x2160 or something) but, of course, when you enter a game, the whole layout disappears.

Is it (easily) possible to edit Multimon so that it can scan multiple artwork folders, and then display them on that second monitor? (And even better, with position/scale control ... the way a layout can?)