joshualeeginsburg

I've made a program has two different video files playing on two different jit.qt.movie windows. ultimately i need each of the two video's to be on separate monitors, but when i send them to jit.window.movie objects, both appear in one screen/window.

1. how do i create two different jit.window.objects (one for each of the different vid files)?

2. and can i full screen each on a separate monitor?

I've made a program has two different video files playing on two different jit.qt.movie windows. ultimately i need each of the two video's to be on separate monitors, but when i send them to jit.window.movie objects, both appear in one screen/window. 

so my question is:
1. how do i create two different jit.window.objects (one for each of the different vid files)?
2. and can i full screen each on a separate monitor? 

two-different-jit-window-movie-screens

Max 4 or 5? There's a bug in the fullscreen function of jit.window in Max 5.0.2, where fullscreened windows appear on monitor 0, no matter what. This will be fixed in Max 5.0.3.

If Max 4, you should just be able to send the jit.window object a 'fullscreen 1' message and see it open to the fullsize of whichever physical monitor it happens to be on.

I'm using max 4. the problem is that vid 1 and vid 2 are both appearing on one screen - so i cant drag them separately to different monitors.

When will the next update be then. I am leaving to a remote location within 5 days and on the computers there is version 5.0.2 and apparently I need 5.0.3. Oh help...

Probably not until after you've left. The fix required changes to the Max application itself, not just jit.window, or we'd post an incremental fix.

Too bad. And before the 13th? That is when the festival starts. I might be able to download a new version before launch day. :D

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this workaround yet: just make the windows borderless (message "border 0", IIRC) and the exact size of your displays, e.g., message "rect 0 0 1024 768" to window 1 and "rect 1025 0 1665 480" to window 2. You can do this automatically by querying jit.displays for the display dimensions.

There's almost always more than one way to do things in Max. ;) good luck on your desert island. 

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this workaround yet: just make the windows borderless (message "border 0", IIRC) and the exact size of your displays, e.g., message "rect 0 0 1024 768" to window 1 and "rect 1025 0 1665 480" to window 2. You can do this automatically by querying jit.displays for the display dimensions. 

There's almost always more than one way to do things in Max. ;) good luck on your desert island. 


Subject: [jitter] Re: two different jit.window.movie screens?

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-----Original Message-----
From: sylvain 

Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 08:22:24 
Subject: [jitter] Re: two different jit.window.movie screens?

ive tried the rect option, but both videos are still being sent to the same jit.qt.window (playing over each other).

any idea how to create two windows and send each video to only 1?

josh
(max 4, 2 videos, 2 different displays)


It sounds like you only have 1 jit.window object. Try making a second one. Two jit.window objects means two windows on screen.

thanks for your reply. i do have have two jit.window objects - is there a way to name them?

i've included just a simple patch that shows this happening. if you have a moment please check it out.

thanks for your reply. i do have have two jit.window objects - is there a way to name them? 

i've included just a simple patch that shows this happening. if you have a moment please check it out. 

try changing the name of the richt one from 'movie' to 'movie2'

You just need to rename one of the jit.window objects to get two windows.

thank you! renaming the jit.qt.movie2 sorted the problem.

i thought id would be something like that but didn't try the most obvious.