Disabling The 2nd Screen

[russhart]

Hi, I am setting up the cues for a show on my desktop at home on a dual monitor system, and would like to stop SCS from throwing up the black screen on the 2nd monitor when it has focus, so I can read the script I'm taking the cues from. Is this possible to currently do this, or a possible future feature request?

[Mike Daniell]

Good suggestion, but there is a way you can do this now, although it's a compromise. Set up a 'Run External Program' cue, which currently is implemented by a specially formatted Note cue. In the Description field of the Note cue, enter "$runh x" (without quotes). Set up this cue as a hot key cue so you can activate it any time.

$runh will run an external program and the 'h' in '$runh' means 'hide the second SCS screen'. Ideally you should run a 'do nothing' program, so running 'x', a non-existent program, will throw an error message, which you can 'OK', but the second screen will be hidden anyway. The screen will remain hidden until you next run a video/image cue. After running a video/image cue you can press the assigned hot key to again hide the second screen.

In the SCS Help, see The Editor / 'Run External Program' Cues for more information.

[russhart]

I will give that a go, but like you said, it would be good if there was a selection to disable the 2nd screen if your only using the program for sound cues, and no visual output.

[Mike Daniell]

If you don't have any video/image cues in your cue file then the second screen will not be blacked out - unless you previously opened a cue file with video/image cues in that same SCS session. But I do agree it would be useful to be able to manually disable the second screen.