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TheShanMan
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I've got 2 screens and I'm trying via either writing a Windows program or an EventGhost script to move the Theater window from one screen to the other (without restarting the app). I've tried so many things but I can't get it to work reliably. It's nothing like trying to do this with a regular window, between the 2 top level windows it uses, and the seemingly non-standard restore/maximize/full screen mechanism. I can move the window(s) but can't seem to resize them or fullscreen them on the other screen. Is there something I'm missing that'll help me get this working? Alternatively if I could somehow tell the media player to be in a different location than the media browser, that would work too.

 

I know this is an obscure request so finding a solution is a long shot I'm guessing, but I'm asking just in case.

 

Not that it matters but my use case is having a regular HDTV plus a black and white CRT as a secondary monitor. Because stuff in Theater is too small to browse on the CRT, I'd like to browse on my big screen, then play the media on my CRT (which is why restarting Theater isn't an option). Right now I use WMC on my CRT because I can make things bigger with WMC, so browsing my media is reasonably effective. But I'd love to ditch WMC and use Theater exclusively if I could somehow get my multimonitor scenario working.

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Hi, yes it is a little bit non-standard right now. So i guess if you can move it you were able to locate the electron window? That is the one you'd need to manipulate.

TheShanMan
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Yeah, I can find them and move them, but resizing and/or "correctly" full-screening them is the problem. By "right now" is there an implication that the rewrite will be easier to work with?  :D  :P

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