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2006-11-22 01:13:12 AM
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I have a multi-monitor setup. Monitor 1 is 1600X1200, 2 is 1280X1024. I
have the monitor setup with the tops equal. I have a small (in height) app
that I run on monitor 2 at the top of the screen. I have a function that I
can call to allow me to set the startup position of dialogs to screencenter,
a particular monitor screencenter, tray app, centered in any window or
window control. When my small app is running at the top and is less than 13
pixels from the top the left property of my dialog becomes unable to be
changed in code and the value that is set in it is the left value that
centers it horizontally with the mainform. The top property still works
correctly. My function is returning the correct values in all cases but the
assignment to the left property is completely ignored when the maniform top
is less than 13. Very weird. I am at a loss.
Russ
 

Do you have ScreenSnap disabled?
I am not sure if it is really a two monitor problem
Also, do you have negative coordinates?
 

Serge Dosyukov (Dragon Soft) writes:
it? I have a multi monitor setup, but I also log on to my office
computer from home, using Remote Desktop.
When I do this, windows normally move in from the adjacent monitors to
the front monitor, automatically.
But recently I saw an application that kept its position out of the
main screen real estate. So judging from this, they have to adjust
themselves? Right?
--
Ingvar Nilsen
www.ingvarius.com
 

ScreenSnap - how many years has that been there? It is false. No neg
coordinates. If I align the bottoms of the 2 monitors it works correctly.
If I am on the 1 monitor it works correctly. If tops aligned and less than
13 pixels from the top of monitor 2 the dialog somehow centers itself on
horizontal centers with the mainform. I am not calculating that number at
all. This is just too weird!
Russ
"Serge Dosyukov (Dragon Soft)" <pooh996.gmail.com>writes

I'd check procedure TCustomForm.SetWindowToMonitor; of Forms.pas. you might
get a clue.
try to copy a whole code into your form and see what is calculated and how.
Usually it helps to find a problem. Let us know about your result
"Russ" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes

"Russ" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
One of the more annoying bugs pretty much requires you to keep the taskbar
bottom most.
Also make sure no window spans beyond the border of a screen.
 

application or what it matter underlying framework.
I did not yet see it properly working in many cases.
I have fished out and fix most of them for my self, but not all of them. See
some of the QC reports on the subject... work in progress...
If you can identity part of the VCL code which could be improved, report on
it.
 

"Serge Dosyukov (Dragon Soft)" <pooh996.gmail.com>wrote
another of a larger size. It uses two 2-port NVIDIA adapters.
I cannot, so far, get the application to start in the same spot as
it was when it was stopped. I have spent about 15 hours
investigating the problem. --JohnH
 

John Herbster writes:
--
Ingvar Nilsen
www.ingvarius.com
 

Works fine for me ;o) I have 4 monitors (2 positive, 2 negative on 2 cards).
Need a hand?

"Serge Dosyukov (Dragon Soft)" <pooh996.gmail.com>wrote
As it is, the users, just have to move things into place once
every couple of weeks, when the system reboots.
Rgds, JohnH
 

"Ingvar Nilsen" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>wrote
But I am not going to work on the problem again
until I get more free time. Regards, JohnH
 

"John Herbster" <herb-sci1_at_sbcglobal.net>writes:
two monitors on a single 2-port NVIDIA adapter. It almost seems
random which screen the app will appear on. I think it is a
function of the video drivers or something else, because I
mainly develop in D6.
OTOH, the D10 IDE only remembers where to open if you save the
desktop each time you modify some aspect of it. I wish there
were a setting that would you say to save the desktop settings
each time you closed the IDE.
-David