Kurt Horvath
10-14-2008, 15:36
Silverleaf VMSpc Screen Cloning
To maximize the usefulness of the VMSpc Silverleaf I have a 7" inch
touch screen monitor mounted on the top center of the dash the laptop
is in front of the passenger seat, It is almost perfect, A slight
glance and I have more Inf. than I really need. Very COOL! When I
first installed it. It mirrored the laptop, but after several days
use it stopped doing this and went to expanded screen mode.
I liked the fact that the laptop and the 7" were in sync. I ran the
VMSpc and Streets and Trips on one screen and have both programs
running at the same time. It's set up as follows, click maximized on
either program for a full screen view or click minimize on either
program and 1/3 of the scene on the left has all the vital engine and
speed gauges and the right 2/3 of the screen has the GPS and route
tracking. It is set on rotate to coincided with the direction I'm
driving, very easy to follow when your driving. Very good set up, and
in clone mode the CO-pilot & passengers have the same Inf. As the
driver. One draw back is if your CO-pilot has a tendency to help in
anything other than directions it's hard to hide how fast your going.
As an expanded desktop it isn't good for the passengers to view or
help navigate and it will not run Streets and trips independently in
the expanded screen mode, if I try to open it independently to each
screen it will not function. It won't find the com. port for the GPS
puck
I have been using it this way for several months now. Today I decided
to fix this problem.
Well after a search for a solution and finding a lot of B.S. mostly
gamer, graphic art, and presentation software and video card stuff
that wasn't applicable to my problem or budget, I ran across a three
sentence explanation on how to do this. It's simple, and it works
perfectly.
Here is how to Clone or Mirror the two monitors.
Fn + F8 (CRT/LCD) functions
On the F8 key, you will notice a blue CRT/LCD marking. By holding
down the blue Fn key at the bottom left of the keyboard and pressing
F8, you can change to which screen to send the output. Each time you
hold Fn and press F8, you cycle through the options in the Output To
list.
The first cycle on my laptop remains as is. The second cycle moves
the desktop to the second monitor and the first monitor goes blank.
The third cycling of the CRT/LCD key both monitors function in clone
mode the are the mirror image of each other and they are both fully
functional. The touch screen works by touching or using the touch pad
on the laptop or with a mouse. The laptop is also fully functional.
Two other notes on the VMSpc: It would sometime freeze up when I
would maximize the Streets and Trips screen then return to the VMSpc
program. I would have to restart the VMSpc program. The fix for this
is on the VMSpc toolbar.
Click on ADVANCED when the window opens click on the box marked
AutoRestart then click OK. The program will run flawlessly no matter
what you open on top of it. When you go back to it. It will be
running.
The second and I think very important is that the powers to be at
Silverleaf have finally added the 470HP version of the Series 60
engine paramiters to the list of engine types. It will be interesting
to see the diffrence in data from the old recommended 500HP setting.
You can find the new programe here.
http://www.silverleafelectronics.com/?q=node/270
The best things in life are simple!
__________________________________________________
Kurt Horvath
95 PT 42
10AC
To maximize the usefulness of the VMSpc Silverleaf I have a 7" inch
touch screen monitor mounted on the top center of the dash the laptop
is in front of the passenger seat, It is almost perfect, A slight
glance and I have more Inf. than I really need. Very COOL! When I
first installed it. It mirrored the laptop, but after several days
use it stopped doing this and went to expanded screen mode.
I liked the fact that the laptop and the 7" were in sync. I ran the
VMSpc and Streets and Trips on one screen and have both programs
running at the same time. It's set up as follows, click maximized on
either program for a full screen view or click minimize on either
program and 1/3 of the scene on the left has all the vital engine and
speed gauges and the right 2/3 of the screen has the GPS and route
tracking. It is set on rotate to coincided with the direction I'm
driving, very easy to follow when your driving. Very good set up, and
in clone mode the CO-pilot & passengers have the same Inf. As the
driver. One draw back is if your CO-pilot has a tendency to help in
anything other than directions it's hard to hide how fast your going.
As an expanded desktop it isn't good for the passengers to view or
help navigate and it will not run Streets and trips independently in
the expanded screen mode, if I try to open it independently to each
screen it will not function. It won't find the com. port for the GPS
puck
I have been using it this way for several months now. Today I decided
to fix this problem.
Well after a search for a solution and finding a lot of B.S. mostly
gamer, graphic art, and presentation software and video card stuff
that wasn't applicable to my problem or budget, I ran across a three
sentence explanation on how to do this. It's simple, and it works
perfectly.
Here is how to Clone or Mirror the two monitors.
Fn + F8 (CRT/LCD) functions
On the F8 key, you will notice a blue CRT/LCD marking. By holding
down the blue Fn key at the bottom left of the keyboard and pressing
F8, you can change to which screen to send the output. Each time you
hold Fn and press F8, you cycle through the options in the Output To
list.
The first cycle on my laptop remains as is. The second cycle moves
the desktop to the second monitor and the first monitor goes blank.
The third cycling of the CRT/LCD key both monitors function in clone
mode the are the mirror image of each other and they are both fully
functional. The touch screen works by touching or using the touch pad
on the laptop or with a mouse. The laptop is also fully functional.
Two other notes on the VMSpc: It would sometime freeze up when I
would maximize the Streets and Trips screen then return to the VMSpc
program. I would have to restart the VMSpc program. The fix for this
is on the VMSpc toolbar.
Click on ADVANCED when the window opens click on the box marked
AutoRestart then click OK. The program will run flawlessly no matter
what you open on top of it. When you go back to it. It will be
running.
The second and I think very important is that the powers to be at
Silverleaf have finally added the 470HP version of the Series 60
engine paramiters to the list of engine types. It will be interesting
to see the diffrence in data from the old recommended 500HP setting.
You can find the new programe here.
http://www.silverleafelectronics.com/?q=node/270
The best things in life are simple!
__________________________________________________
Kurt Horvath
95 PT 42
10AC