Multiple monitors

[Kaly]

Is there a way to display one instance of Daqfactory on multiple monitors? Currently, when I try to drag the window to enlarge it to show on both monitors, it will only enlarge until the size of one screen. Even better, different screens within Daqfactory should be able to be displayed on different monitors.

Can any of these be done or I would have to open two separate instances of Daqfactory, one for each monitor?

Can two instances of Daqfactory access the same Labjack simultaneously?

Thanks

[AzeoTech]

Yes it can be done.  Use the page.,myPage.popupModeless() function to display a page or pages in separate windows that you can then place on different monitors.  PopupModeless() can optionally take position parameters so that you can even have the popups show up on the other monitor automatically.  It may take a little tweaking though to figure out how Windows has setup the coordinates for the screens.  Usually 0,0 is the top left of the main monitor, which means you can actually have negative coordinates for other monitors to the left or above the main monitor.

And no, two instances of DAQFactory cannot access the same LabJack simultaneously, at least not a USB LabJack.  This is a limitation of the LabJack driver, not DAQFactory.  You can probably access an Ethernet LabJack from two pieces of software simultaneously if you do a direct Modbus TCP connection, but you'd have to confirm with LabJack that their Ethernet devices support more than one connection at a time.

 

[Kaly]

Ok great! So now we can have different windows displayed on different monitors.

Can Daqfactory also receive input from 2 different physical keyboards? Can we choose which keyboard to accept input from? For example, Can I assign one popup window to accept input from keyboard A and assign a different screen to accept input from keyboard B?

[AzeoTech]

No, probably not completely.  Windows handles the keyboards and if you have two plugged in, you will be able to type into both, but neither DAQFactory, nor any other application will be able to tell which keyboard is entering the data.  There are two ways you could get this to work:

1) somehow find a serial based keyboard and then write some script to process the serial input

2) use a second PC with a second copy of DAQFactory, and have that DAQFactory connect to the primary computer that is communicating with the LabJack.  You would need Pro and a Runtime license at minimum for this.