Working with Multiple Monitors

Multiple monitors are now supported in the core product instead of within a set of templates. CitectSCADA runtime will display a new window on each of the multiple monitors at start-up. Once the windows are displayed, the user can use the standard page navigation functions to change pages on the individual window. The built-in page navigation functions work under the multi-monitor environment. Several built-in Cicode functions are made available for the user to query information for each of the monitors installed on the machine for further customization.

Multiple monitors are configured by CitectSCADA at startup as follows:

• Reads [MultiMonitors] Monitors to determine which monitors will be shown with CitectSCADA windows.
• Enumerates through the specified monitors and show a new CitectSCADA window at the origin of each of the monitors. The page to be displayed on each monitor will be determined by the parameter [MultiMonitors] StartupPage<n>.
• Once a CitectSCADA window is displayed on each of the specified monitors, you can use the standard page navigation functions to display a page on each of the windows independently.

If this conflicts with your own implementation of multiple monitors support, for example if you are using CSV templates, you can disable the core support by setting parameter [MultiMonitors] DisableAutoStart to 1.

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