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FoE Helfer - Extension for chromium based browsers and Firefox ;-)
https://foe-helper.com
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Windows on a secondary screen #2673

Closed bernie79160 closed 6 months ago

bernie79160 commented 9 months ago

Are you going to develop the window display function on a secondary screen?

SkateScout commented 9 months ago

Hi, this is technically not possible with browser functions.

bernie79160 commented 9 months ago

I have difficulty understanding, but these are really dialog boxes? what's stopping them from being put on a second screen?

I point out that I'm not a developer so I may be asking the impossible, but I do this with a lot of other games, that's why I asked this question.

bernie79160 commented 9 months ago

This is what I found on the Internet Windows and Pop-ups: You can use JavaScript to open new windows or pop-ups in Microsoft Edge. However, how these windows are displayed will depend on the underlying operating system (like Windows). You can control the size and position of these windows using the appropriate parameters in the window.open() function.

Multi-Monitor: Windows, the most commonly used operating system with Microsoft Edge, supports managing multiple displays. You can extend or duplicate your desktop across multiple displays using operating system settings.

User Interface Manipulation: You can use JavaScript to move and resize windows, but this will also depend on browser permissions and settings.

System Features: You can use specific operating system features, such as external display management, to determine where windows will be displayed.

In summary, although Microsoft Edge can be used to create windows and dialog boxes, how they are displayed on a second screen will mainly depend on how the operating system is handled. You can use browser and operating system features to determine where and how these windows appear on multiple screens.

Beelzebob6666 commented 8 months ago

As far as heard, it technically might be possible to do it, but it is quite a challenge as some kind of communication has to be established between the main window and the secondary window as that is not a readily available browser feature.

As far as I heard it has been tried in the past already but was given up at some point - not sure if it was an issue of time constraint or feasability.

outoftheline commented 6 months ago

We will not continue investigating this for now