My main pc at the moment is an old laptop which can only display 800x600. Since P5 requires 1024x768, and my laptop can display that resolution on an external monitor, I bought a second monitor.

The problem is, that every time I launch Poser it lauches to the 800x600 screen and I have to manually drag it to the other screen. After doing this a couple of times, all of the different parts of the screen get jumbled up, and at one point the document display window disappeared altogether (presumable moved somewhere off the visible screen).

Since upgrading isn't an option for the next few months, is there anyway to get Poser to default to the second screen on launch like Internet Explorer and other applications can?

Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Abram

What operating system / graphics system are you using? If it's Xinerama, I can help, but I'm getting the feeling it's running under some flavour of windows? (The precise flavour may be relvent - can you supply that?)

I don't how this is on Windows, but when running a Mac with two screens, you can decide which screen should be the primary screen (on the Mac, it's the one with the menu bar), and Poser launches its window on that screen. Does your Windows flavor/graphics card offer options to set the primary display? You should take a look at the system settings.

Oops, sorry I should have said that before. I'm running under Windows ME. Currently, the LCD display is listed as screen 1, and the external CRT is listed as screen 2. The option to extend the desktop to the second screen is checked.

The display adapter is a Silicon Motion LynxEM+.

With most applications, the default screen is whatever screen they were used in last. For instance, if I were to drag media player over to screen 2, the next time the application launched, it would launch to screen 2.

This seems to work with some of the secondary windows within Poser as well, but not for Poser itself. For instance, I drug all of the room help windows over to the CRT monitor, and now they automatically appear on the CRT whenver I switch from room to room, but the main application always starts on the smaller LCD display no matter how many times I pull it over to the CRT.

Stewer, I'm not aware of a way to make the CRT the primary display. My guess is that the OS would always want the LCD to be primary since the CRT may not always be attached to the laptop, but I'll see what I can dig up. Thanks.

I believe you are out of luck. Poser underpinnings are rooted back in Windoze 3.1 or thereabouts, long before 2 displays were supported. And with CL's practice (if not policy) of add not fix, there have been no updates in this or similar areas - e.g. File Dialogs, Color Picker, yada, yada, ... (Wereas on Mac dual displays were added by Radius early, early, early on, and adopted by Apple, so were around when Poser got it's rootstock. The addition of dual displays on Mac was done right in the OS too, not in the drivers a la M$ ;-)