Laptop with a monitor for 2nd display

[Grumpy]

Hello,

I have a user that runs AutoCAD on a laptop, because he is out of the office at times. When he is in the office he has a monitor and keyboard hooked up and uses both the laptop display and the monitor in a dual "monitor" style, where the monitor is his primary display and the laptop display is secondary. When he starts AutoCAD it opens on the laptop display and then he drags it to the monitor screen and then when he opens dialog boxes they come up on the laptop display.

When he is out of the office and he runs AutoCAD it runs fine except that the dialog boxes do not appear. Because I think they are on the "other" screen. Does anyone know of a setting to fix this. Help!!!

Thanks,
David

[noozybkk]

I've seen this before with multiple displays. What's the graphics card in the laptop? The manufacturer should have software for controlling multi-display behaviour (either shipped or downloadable).

For my desktop machine I run three 19" screens from a Matrox Parhelia card, and the Matrox software has a setting for controlling where dialog boxes open up. For example...

Left Display
Centre Display
Right Display
Parent Application's Display
Mouse Pointer's Current Display
In my laptop I have an ATI Mobility Radeon card and ATI's Hydravision software installed. This gives similar behaviour control when using multiple displays with the laptop.

[Olaf.Banckaert]

When I'm at my desk, I work always with a second screen. Installed the monitor as primary device and the laptop as secondary. Then moved the taskbar to the monitor. When I now open something it opens the screens on the monitor. When I'm using just the laptop all opens fine.
I working on an HP nc6120 with nvidia chipset. The program supported does al the settings automatically.