User Guide

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Detonator XP User’s Guide
• Virtual desktop: Full support for virtual desktops is available for panels and
monitors with limited resolution. Virtual desktops, with full pan-and-scan
mode, can be configured for one or both displays.
See “Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual Desktop)” on page 37 for
Windows 9x or “Change Resolution: Clone Mode (Virtual Desktop)” on
page 68 for Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0.
TwinView Applications
• Engineering or mechanical CAD applications can use multiple displays
for different directional views of an object or a building, such as a front or
side view or even a wireframe model on one screen and a textured version of
the same model on another. Many professional applications offer extensive
graphical user interfaces, which can be left fully enabled and visible on one
display, while the second display remains unobstructed for viewing the actual
work.
• Training and Presentation: TwinView Clone mode, where two monitors
display identical images, is useful for presentations. A presenter may use the
smaller monitor on the podium, while a projector monitor reflects the
presentation to the audience. In training applications, the instructor can see
what the student is doing under TwinView Clone mode. The ability to see the
presentation while it's being projected can be especially useful in mobile
PCs.Virtual Desktop, a sub-feature of TwinView Clone Mode, is useful for
flat panels and monitors with limited resolution and is used to set a larger
than viewable area on the second display, which supports full pan-and-scan
of the entire desktop area.
• Digital content creation applications can use one display for toolbars and
palettes and the other for rendered output. Additionally, many real-time or
game development environments allow the authoring tools or game engine
code to be visible on one display, while showing the art or game engine in a
full screen, game play-like mode on the second display.
• Graphics Artists can have common applications such as Adobe Photoshop
or 3D Studio Max
open with the palettes and menus on one monitor and the
other monitor dedicated to workspace. Writers can use one monitor for
research and the other for writing.
• Financial applications, such as stock trading applications, can use a pair of
large digital flat panels. This would allow you to watch show real-time stock
data on one screen and use the other for trading activity. You can also use
two TwinView-enabled boards (one AGP, one PCI) to hook up four displays.
• Video editing applications would use one large PC display and one NTSC
monitor. Since TwinView technology allows decoupling of refresh rates, the
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