Re: How do you access second display adapter without being a desktop extension?

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"Sam Brown" <subiNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> spake the secret code
<lcednXm0hPcbvSTYnZ2dnUVZ8sCvnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx> thusly:

Its not a loss of focus that causes this, its a loss of the device.
That only happens when you put one of the devices in exclusive mode --
the other device is then lost.

I use DirectX 8, [...]

IIRC, this changed in DX9.

To be honest, I've never thought that MS had a good
multi-adapter/multi-head solution. Its gotten incrementally better
over the years, but its still not what I would call a "solution", more
like a hack to make things work more or less.
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