Feature idea: using dualscreen for minimap

[BvDorp]

Hi,

I had this awesome idea; let's make Spring able to put the minimap on the 2nd screen if you're using dualscreen. How hard is this? Does CEGUI support dualscreen? And are there actually ppl wanting this feature?

It's an idea, not a request. Devs can do this if they want. That's how feature implementation works anyways

[Torrasque]

That would rock.
What would be the performance hit?
Of course, the game should only be drawed on one screen.
And the minimap only on the second.
So, the performance hit should be smaller than if the game was redered on two screen.

[Machiosabre]

It'd be nice, but its sort of a waste of time pandering to people with two screens.

[FoeOfTheBee]

Running Spring in a window messes up the resolution on my second screen.

[greenail]

I don't think it's supported with CEGUI, you'd need a 2nd renderer and everything in CEGUI is a driven by a singleton model, so it would be tricky i think.

[BvDorp]

How's the new GUI anyway?

[SinbadEV]

you could basically run it in windowed mode, and alter the code to open a second window for the minimap instead on making it inline, and then just move it over to the other desktop...

[Forboding Angel]

I have dual display... While it would be really cool... A bit superfluous isn't it?

[altaric]

i have 2 screens, one for spring one for chat, battle window and so on
you can run a 2048*768 and make it cover both screens then resize the minimap .. dunno what it would do

[Zenka]

I run Spring on my main monitor and the lobby on the 2nd.
This gives me a clear view of all players in game, game rules, when a player gets out of the game. Or when someone didn't make it in the game.
Shamely, everytime I wan't to type in the chat, Spring must be minimised, resulting in the Alt-Tab bug.
I wouldn't know any major advantages over a using the 2nd screen for spring. The minimap would be the only good thing to have away from your view. The rest of the GUI must be close too you.

[robed]

Best way to do this is to create a second window, and use basic image rendering (instead of a GL 3d rendering window). the actual 3D image can be created and rendered in the ta window and then copied from a buffer into the 2nd 'map window'. This would allow people with a 3D accelerated graphics card with single output, and say a second ISA card (VGA Card, not even SVGA) to display the minimap on the second card.

[BlackDove_gb]

Robed have, I think, the best idea because using an exported buffer make possible to use an other process to render the minimap.