Starting program in Display 2 ?

Hello @ GregM1951 and welcome to Ten Forums.


Generally (without batch file assistance) a program will "open" on whichever monitor it was last on when it was "closed".
I use VLC media player to watch movies on my TV (2nd display). As long as I always "close" VLC on the TV... it always "opens" there, the next time I start a movie from my hard drive.

Conversely, if I close VLC on display 1, the next time I open it... it opens on display 1.

I don't know if this will help you, but it's built into Windows anyway. Maybe you can find a way to use this function of Windows.



Display 1 (DELL monitor), is set as my primary... always.

GregM1951 said:

I was hoping it would work the way you suggest, but I just can't get that to happen.

My batch file actually starts 4 sub-programs all made by the same company.
The batch file starts all 4 of those sub-programs just not on the right display.

Is there a way to modify my batch file (or write a new one) that designates which display to start on?

I have a second control program that begins to start on display 1, but when fully loaded mysteriously moves over to display 2?
That's the way I want it to work.

I think the trick would be to modify your batch file to determine which display the programs, "close" on.
Then Windows will do the rest, as I mentioned above.

Or make a 2nd batch file.... one to start your programs where ever Windows wants to start them, and a 2nd one to make sure they "close" on the proper display.
Then the next time you run your programs, they'll naturally, start on the correct monitor.


We know for a fact, that Windows always opens a program on whichever monitor it was on when it was... "closed".
You need to construct your batch file(s), to take that default Windows behavior, into consideration.

I can't really be more specific than that. My last serious coding days were... 40 years ago.

I agree with garlin.

I do wonder if it is your batch file that has been creating all these difficulties for you, if the programs are losing their own memories and just opening on the monitor that the batch file runs on.
You can test that idea by manually starting the programs instead,
putting them on the monitors you want,
closing them,
starting them manually again.
Do they open in their previous monitors this way?


Denis

Given that it is specialist software, do you have a support arrangement that allows you to ask the software publishers?

Perhaps they included something that makes the software behave in a non-standard way?
Perhaps they never considered multi-monitor use of the software?


Denis