[python-win32] Detecting when a system has multiple monitors (desktops)

[Tony Cappellini]

Thanks-

but I think Tim's solution is more native and has the added benefit of
not requiring any additional software..
I was thinking too much into the problem.

However, I will keep your reply for future reference. There may be a
time when I need the monitors package.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:21 PM, reckoner <reckoner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tony:
>
> All of this is handled in the dragonfly package:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/
>
> Note that you do not need speech recognition in order to use it. In
> particular, look at
>
>   from dragonfly import Window, monitors
>
>
> and the
>
> window.py file in the distribution.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
>
> On 8/24/2010 4:33 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know how to detect if a system has multiple monitors
>> (desktops) through Python?
>>
>> I've written a program which allows the user to open multiple
>> stand-alone windows.
>> When I run this program I usually drag these windows to my secondary
>> monitor.
>>
>> I was to save the screen coordinates of the window locations so they
>> can be restored.
>>
>> First, the program must detect the multiple desktops and then
>> understand if the screen coordinates of those
>> windows are related to the primary or secondary desktop.
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