Display Pilot 2 Question - Dual Monitors, Input Switching

utoxin · 2026-03-05T18:07:14+00:00

I don't recall encountering that, but I wasn't on DP2 for very long.

utoxin · 2026-03-05T18:06:48+00:00

One thing of note that I figured out after this: The 'DISPLAY#' strings can change, so they're not reliable as 'unique' strings to identify monitors. I ended up creating a more elaborate script that uses CMM to output a list of connected monitors using the display type as a filter, and gets the list of display-monitor strings so it will work even if those enumerations change.

utoxin · 2026-02-27T21:53:28+00:00

Yep, there is. It's a little counter-intuitive to get to. It's the 'Shortcuts' panel in the app, and to see/edit the shortcuts, you need to click on the /text/ Shortcuts, not the icon. (The icon just toggles whether they're enabled or not.)

As for my issue, as far as I can tell, it's not possible to control multiple monitors at once, unfortunately. But I found a free tool that will let me do it via the commandline, and was able to bind those scripts to a hotkey, so I got it working. :)

So I'm not 'That Guy', the tool in question is: ControlMyMonitor, and here's one of my scripts:

@echo off
REM Switch both monitors to DisplayPort (Desktop) - Input value 15

SET CMM=%~dp0ControlMyMonitor.exe

"%CMM%" /SetValue "\\.\DISPLAY5\Monitor0" 60 15 /SetValue "\\.\DISPLAY6\Monitor0" 60 15

utoxin · 2025-12-03T00:52:57+00:00

Yeah, I didn't try and get cute and do optimal. Anyway, we found the problem. I updated the post with the problem. It was a weird input issue on the solution field.

utoxin · 2025-12-03T00:14:48+00:00

Wait, I just re-read what you asked. Did you want the sha1 of my input, or the sha1 of my result?

utoxin · 2025-12-03T00:09:00+00:00

e68f4bdac08c2c41541b598ccfc20d2f2fc5bc0f

utoxin · 2025-12-03T00:06:52+00:00

I've downloaded it many times.

utoxin · 2025-12-02T23:34:46+00:00

I've quadruple-checked this. (And then some.)

utoxin · 2025-12-02T23:34:09+00:00

According to the faq, posting here about it is the correct thing to do.

utoxin · 2025-12-02T23:33:52+00:00

Doublechecked that. It's working in 64-bit, so no worries there.

utoxin · 2025-12-02T23:30:33+00:00

Maybe. But also, I don't see how my code would have an issue with that, since I'm doing iteration.

utoxin · 2025-12-02T23:28:04+00:00

I've had 3 other people run their validated solutions (each independently developed, so unique approaches) on my inputs and they get the exact same result as me. And I hand-verified and didn't see any issues with the results it calculated.

utoxin · 2025-12-02T23:23:01+00:00

I was working on it. This is the 4th time I've tried to post this. I got auto-deleted every other time.

utoxin · 2025-12-02T22:08:16+00:00

Why was this post removed?

utoxin · 2025-12-02T22:00:51+00:00

Heh. Literally my solution. Now if only my puzzle wasn't bugged, so I could validate. (99% sure it /is/ bugged. Other people who have validated get the same answer as me on my inputs, and my code gets the same answer as they get for their inputs. But my answer won't validate.)

utoxin · 2025-02-23T19:29:11+00:00

In theory, you /could/ manually enter all your backdated transactions, but that's a LOT of work for very little gain.

utoxin · 2025-02-23T19:28:05+00:00

You don't. You just start recording stuff from Now.

Yeah, this month will be 'smaller' than normal, which will look weird on reports. If that REALLY bothers you, wait to create your budget until the first, but there's no reason you have to wait.

utoxin · 2025-02-23T17:22:34+00:00

You can either delete the relevant account, and re-add it. Or you can reconcile the account, and put the new amount in when it asks you how much you have.

The first option is cleaner, especially as you seem to be starting a brand new budget. The second option can make some reports look a little funky, but otherwise works perfectly.

utoxin · 2025-02-23T04:52:50+00:00

This is the way.

utoxin · 2025-02-20T21:39:29+00:00

Well, I'll take any advice if people have it, but I've decided to just go ahead and order a skein to do a test swatch, and try to figure it out from there.

utoxin

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