Multidisplay Setup
Click the Multidisplay setup 
button in the upper-right-hand corner of the live view, next to the Save layout button, to bring up the display selection menu.
Macula Monitor automatically detects computer display configuration directly from Windows display settings: click Identify to show the display numbers on all monitors - this will helpful if there is a large number of displays. To change your multimonitor configuration, go to the Windows Control Panel -> Display -> Screen Resolution.
Please note that in some rare cases, Windows display configuration may be affected by third-party software, multiple GPUs, or manually edited registry entries, so the best way for intricate setups is to trust display identification provided by the Macula Monitor.
Macula Monitor automatically detects which screen it is currently on: this display is marked blue and it is not possible to create any child windows on it. Click on any other empty display (marked grey) to open a new live view window there: the child window will be opened maximised, with the display number shown in the application header. The controls in the upper-right-hand corner give the option to enter fullscreen or to close the extension windows.
For the multiple display configuration, the following logic is applied:
the main Macula Monitor application window acts as a parent window, in the sense that:
child windows for extension screens can be created and closed independently
when the main application window is closed, all other windows are closed as well
the main window can be located on any screen
only one application window can be opened per screen
child windows are maximized to fill all screen
child windows do not have menus or panels, just live view mode
double-click layouts and/or channels to load them in the main application window
drag and drop layouts and/or channels from the main window list to extension monitors
The advanced window settings dialog box offers the following possibilities:
create windows for the available displays and manage their properties
assign default layouts and sequences to windows (local displays only)
bind windows to video wall displays
In the upper part of the configuration dialog box you can see the available window list. The main Macula Monitor window (marked as Primary) is always present in the list and it cannot be deleted or renamed. More windows can be added, their maximum number being limited to the number of displays physically connected to the workstation. For each window, the following items are displayed in the summary list:
display number
primary or not (cannot be changed)
startup layout/sequence, if set
channel/map pop-ups allowed or not
layout pop-ups allowed or not
start fullscreen or not
video wall screen number, if set
All these settings can be changed below.
To add a new window, click the + Add window button in the upper-left-hand corner (when the number of windows has reached the number of physical displays, the button becomes greyed out). Select the parameters of the new window and click Save for the changes to take effect.
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