EQ2 Dual Monitor Action Bar Issues

I started the 7 day trial of this program and will buy a sub if I can get the action bar working correctly.

I have two monitors each at 1440x900 (I did have two different monitors but now they are the exact same model).

I'm trying to find a combo to run six characters where the Action Bar will actually be in the same spot for all the windows, but whenever I align it on window 1, the others don't work.

My preference is to have 1 character on one monitor, with the rest on the second. The Multi-monitor with per-monitor swapping (Swapping,Maintain Aspect,Avoid Taskbar) is the one I'm trying to get to work, but I'll take any setup that actually aligns this damn action bar.

Any ideas?

Second question, maybe for a different thread, I'm a noob on this so maybe its an easy answer. I'm a clicker, and I generally have 4 sets of spells (4x10). The action bar, if I can get it to work, will cover 10 spells (1 hotbar), but I'd like to have 4 action bars for each of my 4 hotbars. Can I do this? Or am I restricted to 1 action bar? I tried Repeater Regions but nothing I try allows me to actually click anything that I cover in the region, which I thought was the whole point of them.

[lax]

I'm trying to find a combo to run six characters where the Action Bar will actually be in the same spot for all the windows, but whenever I align it on window 1, the others don't work.

It's not particularly obvious why "the others don't work", if you move it on window 1. The Action bar doesn't have to be in the same spot for all the windows in order to work, and where it is in window 1 doesn't affect where it is in window 2 unless you click Sync, which specifically puts it in the same spot in all windows. Perhaps the issue is that you should not click Sync.

Or, perhaps the issue is that your Window Layout is using two different resolutions.

Show us your configuration and we'll go from there. http://isboxer.com/wiki/Configuration_Sharing

Second question, maybe for a different thread, I'm a noob on this so maybe its an easy answer. I'm a clicker, and I generally have 4 sets of spells (4x10). The action bar, if I can get it to work, will cover 10 spells (1 hotbar), but I'd like to have 4 action bars for each of my 4 hotbars. Can I do this? Or am I restricted to 1 action bar?

You can set up the Standard Menu, and additional menus, however you like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX6gsNLMsVI

I tried Repeater Regions but nothing I try allows me to actually click anything that I cover in the region, which I thought was the whole point of them.

The whole point of a Repeater Region is to automatically broadcast the mouse cursor when in this area, along with any mouse buttons or modifier keys. If your game windows are in different resolutions due to your Window Layout (again just about the only reason I can imagine as for why your alignment on Window 1 has anything to do with Window 2), then a Repeater Region may not be your best bet.

You're probably right about the resolutions, I just don't know how to change it.

My monitors and EQ2 clients are set to the same resolution, but as the game windows are different sizes (window 1 is full screen, window 2 is about 2/3rd of a screen, window 3-6 the rest,then maybe that's the issue. I just assumed that because it's a wizard default setup, it would all be aligned.

I'd be quite happy to have 3 characters per screen, but keeping the restriction that character 1 doesn't swap. I tried doing that manually as the wizard didn't give that option, but I couldn't figure it out how to do it.

I'll send a configuration share when I'm next at my PC. Thanks in advance.

Try this for my config

http://pastebin.com/9UzAH03b

[bob]

Assuming we are talking team 1 (which I am guessing at, but it is the only setup with two 1440x900 monitors), then the reason things are not lining up in the same place is because internally the games are rendering at different resolutions.

You need to have the same sized RESET region for each swap group, or at the minimum the same aspect ratio for each RESET region for each swap group (if you are using a scaled cursor positioning set in the Repeater Profile) .

The definition of the RESET region is:

All windows in this swap group will use the selected region when entering the Reset state (usually when the game is first launched). This will typically force the game to render at the size of the Reset region.

As you have different sized Reset Regions for your two swap groups (SG1 has no reset region so the region size is used), then everything in SG1 is rendering at 1440x900 and everything in SG2 is rendering at 1440x720.

Ideally I would say you should set region 1 as the RESET region for both swap groups (the RESET region doesn't have to be in the same SG), and then consider adjusting the sizes of the regions in SG2to have the same aspect ratio as SG1, otherwise positioning of artefacts and mouse broadcasting may be slightly off.

Hi bob,

Yes Team 1 is correct.

OK, so basically I can't have a full screen in main character and 5 others in screen 2 because of the ratios. A full screen is 1440x900 and there doesn't seem to be a Wizard default that takes that into account.

I've reduced the full screen to 1440x720, so now I basically have 2 screens with those on for characters 1 and 2. Characters 3-6 will be below in the available space, on a 360x180 resolution, so they all at least have that 2:1 ratio of horizontal x vertical. Hopefully this fixes it, won't be able to try for 36 hrs probably. It's a shame I lose some screen to nothing, got room for another 4 characters in theory!! 10 boxing might be pushing it though.

[bob]

You can have full screen if you want to, but then as Lax pointed out, the Sync function for the menus wont work well, because 5 of your regions (2 to 6) are using a different resolution to Region 1 and the sync function does not take this into account. It sets the pixel location to be the same. This means that to layout menus you are best to do the layout on region 2, sync that so all the slots in Regions 2 - 6 match up (they will because the reset region is the same), and then in the region 1 you place the menus manually, because it will be slightly different.

Your next issue with different resolutions is that the game UI's may be scaled at different sizes, so you'd probably need different menus/menu templates (for the green boxes) in order to set the sizes of the boxes slightly differently. They can all run the same button sets so they do the same thing, but you will need to fiddle somewhere.

Then for mouse broadcasting purposes (on the occasions when you want to use it), you'll probably need to set the Cursor Positioning Mode to one of the scaled options. Id probably go with the "Scaled to fit, from center"

Personally I find that with three screens, my eyes are still only focusing on one at a time and the others are just peripheral, so if I was going to set aspect ratios the same, I'd go with the biggest main window I could, and just adjust the others to fit the aspect ratio of that.