Can relative positions of two monitors be changed numerically?

if i understand correctly you have extended display over two screens and have different set of icons on each screen and you belt macros that click them , now would you rephrase the rest ? also may you elaborate on what tool you used to build those macros ?

The attached screenshot of Setting > Display shows the two monitors as icons that can be moved relative to one another. Monitor 1 is the main monitor, so that one is not a problem: the upper left corner is always (0, 0). Monitor 2 can be moved with respect to Monitor 1, so that the address of the upper left corner can change. A macro that interrogates a pixel at (say) (100,100) on Monitor 2 will address the wrong pixel if the position of Monitor 2 has changed since the macro was written. If the position of Monitor 2 does change, I'd like to be able to move it back to exactly where it was before the change. Hence the need for a numerical as opposed to drag-and-drop way to adjust Monitor 2's position.

The macros were built using Macro Express Pro, which has a function that gets the color value of a particular pixel.

Changing the coordinates referred to in the macros is what I've been doing so far. The problem is I've got a number of macros that refer to specific screen coordinates, and it's a pain to find and rewrite them all. I could rewrite them to make them more robust to changes caused by computer crashes, but it would be much easier just to reset the monitor position when occasionally necessary. I assume the monitor position must be stored somewhere in the Registry, but I don't know where.

coffent said:

The attached screenshot of Setting > Display shows the two monitors as icons that can be moved relative to one another. Monitor 1 is the main monitor, so that one is not a problem: the upper left corner is always (0, 0). Monitor 2 can be moved with respect to Monitor 1, so that the address of the upper left corner can change. A macro that interrogates a pixel at (say) (100,100) on Monitor 2 will address the wrong pixel if the position of Monitor 2 has changed since the macro was written. If the position of Monitor 2 does change, I'd like to be able to move it back to exactly where it was before the change. Hence the need for a numerical as opposed to drag-and-drop way to adjust Monitor 2's position.

The macros were built using Macro Express Pro, which has a function that gets the color value of a particular pixel.

Try this free tool to assign the positions of your monitors by co-ordinates : https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/multi_monitor_tool.html



There is also DisplayFusion if you need perfection , it does that but its a paid app however : Monitor Configuration • Features • DisplayFusion by Binary Fortress Software



If not , here are bunch of tools to wad through : Free DisplayFusion Alternatives for Windows

Hi nIGHTmAYOR,

I tried Multi-Monitor Tool & it does exactly what I need. Thanks!

(BTW, small point: it appears one cannot set the monitor coordinates directly from MMT, but if you save the current configuration, you can edit the file with a text editor and then load the edited file back into MMT and bingo! the monitor position is changed.)

With that help, I'm marking the problem solved.

nIGHTmAYOR said:

Try this free tool to assign the positions of your monitors by co-ordinates : Enable/disable/configure multiple monitors on Windows

There is also DisplayFusion if you need perfection , it does that but its a paid app however : Monitor Configuration • Features • DisplayFusion by Binary Fortress Software

If not , here are bunch of tools to wade through : Free DisplayFusion Alternatives for Windows

Thank you Sir, you pointed me in the direction and helped me with my task of Positioning multiple monitors accurately.



I used a combination of the MultiMonitor tool and DPEdit from gitub with cross check in Nvidia control panel.