dual monitor's "independent?"

[c4_McLovin]

I have a little problem here. I do kitchen designs for my company and I purchased 2 monitors one for me and the other one for the customer. I can either clone them or just have them as one big screen. My problem is; I want the monitor for the customer to only show what I want it too. Not show everything all the time. I basically have margins cost and delivery charges that I cant disclose to the customer at the design faze. Is there a program out there that will allow me do kinda what I want. Also for the one monitor that is for the customers I would like a video of some kitchens to play until I need to sit down with the customer and go over the design and price.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
Brent Larson

 

[sniperchang]

When you say you can "have them as one big screen" do you mean spanning or dual-screen?

Spanning means windows thinks you have one big monitor, dual-monitor means you can "maximize" windows on each screens...

Have a look at the link in my sig, info on multi-display stuff. Spanning vs multi-display is discussed on the second page i think.

 

[sniperchang]

I don't have exact idea on this but this is possible. I saw some in hotels, maybe they have done something with its video cards or maybe they have two video cards. But also, I know that Mac can do 4 separate monitors.

Usually, companies who want a program for things like this just hire a software firm to make a program for their needs.

c4_McLovin, here's a simple solution, have a look at this, you could perhaps use Power Point to display what you want. You can control the contents form your screen while the "customer" screen displays it.

Here's a professional solution that I found a while ago. However, I wouldn't recommend it, it's way to expensive and probably overkill.

 

[Langers2k7]

Hi - are the things you want to show the customer and the things you don't want to show them in different windows?

If they are, then you can use Ultramon - it has a 'smart taskbar' feature that splits the tabs in your taskbar between each screen depending what's running on each screen.

 

[c4_McLovin]

thanks

Hey, thanks allot those programs worked great. I mixed both programs together so when I do not have a customer I am spanning my screens using “Power show” (note: on the customer’s screen I have a power point picture show of some of our jobs running). When the customer sits down I click the little short I made using “Ultramon” and flip to Mirror monitor. This worked out great thanks allot. The only thing I would like to work better is “Ultramon” does not support 3D movements and my program is a 3D “AutoCAD” program. This makes it so when I am browsing my design in 3D the other screen does not render the image but, I can hold the image still and refresh the image and the other monitor will see the 3D image. So I think for a free fix to my problem that is great.

Thanks again
Mclovin