display a GIF image by selecting PC monitor to run on startup

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Dears,

I have a kiosk that has 2 monitors.
I want to display a GIF image on computer startup on one of the monitors to run an ad.
How can I program that in C#?
How can I run the image on a specific monitor?

Posted 12-Aug-13 9:12am

Sandra Ha

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Zoltán Zörgő 12-Aug-13 15:14pm

What do you exactly mean by "computer startup"?

Sandra Ha 12-Aug-13 15:23pm

When the computer completes booting

Zoltán Zörgő 12-Aug-13 15:26pm

You mean when Windows is also loaded, and normally you should see the desktop? You want to start an application automatically after Windows started? Because you can hardly start something before that point - well, you could but it is really-really complicated.

Dusara Maulik 12-Aug-13 15:15pm

Did you set you graphics display settings to Dual-view mode?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Aug-13 16:40pm

First of all, you need to tag the UI library or application type you want to use. What does it mean, "run an image"? :-)
"How can I program" is not a valid question. Who knows how you can program it (probably, badly :-)? You need to explain your specific concerns.
—SA

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Dusara Maulik · Answer 1 · 2013-08-12T09:25:00

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Hi,

Before work with multiple monitors you need to have some knowledge about Screen[^] class. To display any screen on other monitor you need All active monitors Screen Resolutions.

For Retrieving the screen resolution, you're going to want to use the System.Windows.Forms.Screen[^] class. The Screen.AllScreens[^] property can be used to access a collection of all of the displays on the system, or you can use the Screen.PrimaryScreen property to access the primary display.

For setup your application on window's startup please refer below links.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/674628/how-do-i-set-a-program-to-launch-at-startup[^]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5394098/how-to-make-an-exe-start-at-the-windows-startup[^]
http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial151_Run-the-application-at-Windows-startup.html[^]
You also can refer Dynamic Screen Resolution[^] article.

Posted 12-Aug-13 9:25am

Dusara Maulik

Updated 12-Aug-13 9:29am

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Sandra Ha 12-Aug-13 15:33pm

Actually I read about this class and I used the AllScreens() method to get the monitors details. But I was stuck, I need to display the gif image on one of the monitors in the list I have.

Dusara Maulik 12-Aug-13 15:44pm

can you post your code what you had done?

Sandra Ha 12-Aug-13 15:49pm

Ok, i made a small windows application just to test. I added a combobox and filled it with the monitors I have. foreach(Screen screen in System.Windows.Forms.Screen.AllScreens)
{
ddlScreens.Items.Add(screen.DeviceName);

}

In this way the user will select a specific monitor.

the second step is to run an image on the selected monior.

Let's say I have the image path , I can't see any method for the screen that says display or show

Dusara Maulik 12-Aug-13 16:08pm

Ok, below code will help you.

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Fill all screens in drop down list
foreach (Screen item in Screen.AllScreens)
{
cboScreens.Items.Add(item.DeviceName);
}
}

private void btnConvert_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Rectangle object for selected screen
Rectangle recSelScreen = new Rectangle();
int intLeft = 0;
foreach (Screen item in Screen.AllScreens)
{
//Match if selected screen is current screen
if (item.DeviceName == cboScreens.SelectedText)
recSelScreen = item.WorkingArea;
else
intLeft += item.WorkingArea.Width;//Need to get left of selected screens
}

this.Left = recSelScreen.Left; //move current form to selected screen
}

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Aug-13 16:41pm

This would be good if we knew that OP wanted to work with System.Windows.Forms, but how do we know that?
—SA