I have a three-monitor setup using WideView. I have two computers. On one computer I would like to open two FS windows, drag one to the far left screen, and keep one on the right screen. I then want to change the views to the outside - right and left while keeping the forward view with instruments on the server monitor.How do I open more than one window in FS. The view mode settings only allow for things like spot, tower, and the like and you can open different views within the main window. But, how do I configure two separate FS windows with two different views (L & R outside)? Note, in the old versions of FS you could use keystrokes to mimic the hat switch. For example, you could use the key-stroke combination of shift-num9 for the front-right view. I tried that with FS9 and it didn't work.Appreciate any help - Thanksfb

Press the left square bracket key (or is it the right one? - I don't have FS running right now). You should then be able to undock those windows (while in windowed, not full screen mode) and move them to where you want them. In each of those, press the shift key and then hat or cursor key to the view you want, let go of the cursor key or hat, and THEN let go of the shift key. The view should remain locked to what you set it to.This is from memory; I hope I have it right. I'm downloading Half Life 2 on my FS machine and don't want to muck that up 8^) .Dave Blevins

Dave,Thanks so much for your reply. Unfortunately it didn't work. I undocked the upper forward scenery portion of the FS window (from the panel). However, the keyboard view changes (SHIFT+NUM9 and SHIFT+NUM7) only worked with the undocked portion of the window. I couldn't get it to work with the other window.It appears you can't get Windows to gain "focus" (the active window) on those two windows separately. In the panel.cfg file - does there have to be some configuration entry so Windows will know how to change the active window?Regards,fb

Sorry I was wrong about this - even though I have multiple monitors (actually one LCD flat panel and an LCD projector) I don't use more than one outside view, so I guess they behave differently than the instrument panel stuff which is what I'm entirely too familiar with. good luck,dB.

Hi,This is explained in the wideview documentation and wideview forum, but basically, you'll need these lines in your panel.cfg :3 MONITORS SETUP WITH WIDEVIEW(Here is my panel file for both the server and client)...[VIEWS] VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=0.0, 0.0, 0.0 VIEW_FORWARD_ZOOM=1.0 VIEW_FORWARD_EYE=0.035, -0.210, -0.05 VIEW_FORWARD_RIGHT_DIR=0.0, 0.0, 45.0 VIEW_FORWARD_Right_ZOOM=1.0 VIEW_FORWARD_RIGHT_EYE=0.0, -0.210, 0.0 VIEW_FORWARD_LEFT_DIR=0.0, 0.0, -45.0 VIEW_FORWARD_LEFT_ZOOM=1.0 VIEW_FORWARD_LEFT_EYE=0.0, -0.210, 0.0...Once you have set up the layout you can save it as a saved flight that you will re-select to start a new flight.Hope it helps.In my setup the server pc has forward view and instruments (on 2 monitors) and the second pc has the right and left views.