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znelson - 15 Jan 2007 05:23 GMT

Is it possible to redirect the rendering of a windows form to the video
port/overlay device of a video card? In my situation I must present the
contents of a window on an hdtv and I can't use a desktop clone trick
because there's going to be another application running that cannot
show up on the tv. Any ideas?

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Bryan Phillips - 15 Jan 2007 10:29 GMT

Can you extend the desktop onto the HDTV and restrict the one window to
it while restricting the other application to run on the main monitor?

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Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com

> Is it possible to redirect the rendering of a windows form to the video
> port/overlay device of a video card? In my situation I must present the
> contents of a window on an hdtv and I can't use a desktop clone trick
> because there's going to be another application running that cannot
> show up on the tv. Any ideas?

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znelson - 15 Jan 2007 12:17 GMT

> Can you extend the desktop onto the HDTV and restrict the one window to
> it while restricting the other application to run on the main monitor?
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> MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
> Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com

I'm going to give that a try. The only downside is if one of the
applications doesn't remember which desktop it's supposed to run in, I
won't have programmatic control to fix it. I really need to isolate
each desktop so an application from the main one can't be dragged into
the hdtv one.

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