Question Orbiter on two screens

[Harmsway]

Its been quite some time since I fooled with Orbiter but I vaguely remember a mod that lets you run Orbiter from a separate window. Can anyone direct me in what that was or is?

You see my boys and I have a dedicated computer room which we recently installed a 40 inch 1080 TV screen for gaming. I now play Orbiter on the big screen from my laptop. The laptop screen is free for anything else. Like checklist. Why not other Orbiter window views or MFDs?

 

[paddy2]

ExtMFD is what you are after.
Needs to be enabled via the opening menu LAUNCHPAD where you choose modules and the like.
I have set my 2nd screen to exended, ( i.e. not clone).
It is then F4 to bring up the menu, select custom, external MDF and move it on to the second screen. You can have more than one external MFD so could have one running Orbit display with picture and one with numbers. You could have both aline and sync orbits showing.

I not have a very high spec and sometimes its a bit "slower" rather than slow but the ease of use more than makes up for it.

 

[Ripley]

This.
And with a Autohotkey script (I have it somewhere. Left me dig it out, and I'll post it here), you can open as many ExtMfds as you like and automatically position them at some xy coords.

---------- Post added at 11:53 ---------- Previous post was at 08:15 ----------

I remembered I've already posted it!

Here it is:
http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=329884&postcount=6

Other resources:
http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Interfacing_to_Orbiter

And http://www.autohotkey.com/ of course

 

[Harmsway]

ExtMFD is what you are after.
Needs to be enabled via the opening menu LAUNCHPAD where you choose modules and the like.
I have set my 2nd screen to exended, ( i.e. not clone).
It is then F4 to bring up the menu, select custom, external MDF and move it on to the second screen. You can have more than one external MFD so could have one running Orbit display with picture and one with numbers. You could have both aline and sync orbits showing.

I not have a very high spec and sometimes its a bit "slower" rather than slow but the ease of use more than makes up for it.

That's the one. Thanks

 

[kamaz]

See also this: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=362597