Helios on 2nd screen dissapears

Nerull · December 12, 2017

Hi all! I'm in a bit of a pickle and reading the previous helios threads didn't help. so:

I have a dual screen setup (one on top of the other) and want to use helios on my 2nd monitor. I followed the steps described in https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=125195 but to no avail.

When I start Helios it shows on my 2nd screen:

But when I start DCS:

1.only the MFCDs are exported

2.it looks as if Helios is hidden "behind" the black background of DCS

I've used this export.lua for a while (used to work before 1.5) and the MFCDs export, so I suppose it's not too bad:

_ = function(p) return p; end;

name = _('MDP-DS-ALL export');

Description = 'export all to lower screen'

Viewports =

{

Center =

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width = 1920;

height = 1080;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0;

aspect = 1.77777777777778;

}

GUI=

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width = 1920;

height = 1080;

}

LEFT_MFCD =

{

x = 380;

y = 1085;

width = 400;

height = 400;

}

RIGHT_MFCD =

{

x = 1260;

y = 1085;

width = 400;

height = 400;

}

UHF_PRESET_CHANNEL =

{

x = 874;

y = 1924;

width = 40;

height = 40;

}

UHF_FREQUENCY_STATUS =

{

x = 807;

y = 2048;

width = 170;

height = 40;

}

UHF_REPEATER =

{

x = 824;

y = 1991;

width = 140;

height = 40;

}

A10C_CLOCK =

{

x = 809;

y = 1597;

width = 200;

height = 200;

}

CMSP =

{

x = 343;

y = 1908;

width = 270;

height = 60;

}

CMSC =

{

x = 339;

y = 1991;

width = 300;

height = 90;

}

RWR =

{

x = 784;

y = 1186;

width = 300;

height = 300;

}

CDU =

{

x = 1222;

y = 1825;

width = 356;

height = 270;

}

UIMainView = Viewports.Center

Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong?

MDP-DS-ALL export.lua

Capt Zeen · December 12, 2017

Well, Looks like DCS is on top of Helios.

make sure you dont got "full screen" checked on DCS options.

need to be in windows mode to work.

And uncheck the disable aero interface

The code you send is not the export.lua

It is the monitor configuration, so you can arrange the diferent viewo¡port on the screens. Anyway looks correct.

I recomend you to rescale the helips profile for your monitor, too. You are not using the complete resolution for it, so everythig looks smaller. To do that use the option "reset monitors" on the helios profile editor.

For the export.lua you can use the latest export i got on my web page. It works with several airplanes and helos.

Bye!

Edited December 12, 2017 by Capt Zeen

Nerull · December 12, 2017

Thanks for the feedback Capt Zeen.

I checked that the "full screen" and "disable aero interface" were not clicked

But the problem remains.

The screens have been resized, but my bottom screen is only a 19" one (27" for the main). So that should be ok.

Funny thing is, that although you can't see it on my screenshots the "Helios Control Center" panel is visible, but not the rest of the helios panel, which is indeed hidden by dcs. I placed it on the lower screen but it doesn't show up on the screenshot. So basically part of Helios is on top but the main part is hidden.