NeveroddoreveN Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Yesterday, I installed a second monitor to my gaming computer, which went beautifully! Now I can have two monitors going at the same time. Here is my issue... I have Microsoft Excel open in the left-side monitor, and am playing a Dosbox game (Might and Magic II), but when I have the game running in right-side monitor, I can't use Excel in the other one. How do I have a game running in one monitor and use Excel in the other? Just for clarifications sake, I have the correct Excel spreadsheet up in the left-side monitor and the game in the right-side one. I need to be able to go from the running game to Excel and use Excel - every time I have both programs running, the game runs fine, but I can't change any information in Excel. Please help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 can you set DOSbox to run in a windowed full screen and not true full screen? Or is the issue that you mouse is stuck in DOSBox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeveroddoreveN Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 First, I thank you for your post! I intend to have a game running in one monitor and an Excel spreadsheet in another. All I want to do is be able to work with Excel while the Dosbox game is running. Not sure if I had said this before, but the game I am playing takes up the entire screen. That said, I can't take the desktop cursor into the second monitor. You had asked if the mouse is stuck in Dosbox - I would have to say yes, because with a non-Dosbox game (so far), I can have the game in one screen (full screen) in one monitor and still be able to manipulate any other (non-Dosbox) program just fine. So yeah, I guess it could be considered that the cursor is locked in the first monitor with the game, because I can't put the mouse cursor to the second monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 I'm not really a DOSBox user but I am pretty sure this can be done hopefully one of our DOSBox experts like @Zombeaver will chime in and help you out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 CTRL-F10 should release the mouse from the DOSBox window, Trapped mouse cursor Q. My cursor is trapped within the DOSBox window when I click inside. How do I get the cursor out? A. DOSBox will capture your mouse when you click inside the display window (and you have autolock=true set in the Dosbox.conf). Simply press CTRL-F10 to release the mouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Just did some testing with a couple of different DOSBox builds I have installed and how well this works or if it works depends on the build you are using. I don't use the 0.74 build or the one that comes with Launchbox but I can confirm this works perfectly with the ECE build of DOSBox https://blog.yesterplay80.net/dosbox-ece-en/ I loaded up Eye of the Beholder in fullscreen mode and then pressed Control + F10 and it freed the mouse to move to my 2nd monitor while the game stayed running and fullscreen on the main monitor. I tried this with another build which I really like (https://aeronextedit.wordpress.com/dosboxscummvm-ports/) using but it didn't work, this build though does have certain other minor issues especially in terms of fullscreen stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeveroddoreveN Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 I want to thank everyone for their posts and suggestions! I appreciate all of your help! Just as a heads up, the game in question is called "Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World" - it came out back in 1988 and was the first CRPG I ever played! So fun! Anyway, I tried the Control-F10 tip, the game still runs just fine, and I can see the mouse cursor on the same screen as the game, but when I try and take the cursor to the left, it stops at the edge of the same first monitors screen. While running any other program so far, when I want to go from the first monitor to the second one, all I have to do is move the cursor to the left edge of the screen and it will "jump" from that monitor to the other one. I really hope this is worded right and makes sense! Thanks again, everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Ctrl+F10 would have been my suggestion. If that doesn't work, the only other thing I could really suggest is just outright running it in a window. You can press Alt+Enter while it's running to switch between fullscreen and windowed; and you can set it to run either fullscreen or windowed by default by editing your dosbox.conf and setting either fullscreen=true or fullscreen=false respectively. You can also specify the window resolution via windowresolution= so you can still make it occupy most of the screen while windowed if you so choose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzDrDj Posted May 14, 2023 Share Posted May 14, 2023 Well that was 5 years ago and I just came across your post, I gather you sorted your resolution problem out on the second build? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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