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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 13 04:44:49 -0700 2006 ------- I have confirmed that this is related to the physical relationship of the two monitors, in (Windows XP) Display Properties, Settings Tab. The part of OO.o that decides whether the dropdowns go down or up seems to take its cue from the outer bounds of the desktop space, regardless of whether that space is accessible on the current monitor. In XP, the default is to align the tops of the monitors in a dual-monitor configuration, so my desktop on the external monitor extended 80 pixels *below* the desktop on the laptop LCD. The part of OO.o that decides the direction of the dropdowns seems to think it has that extra 80 pixels to play with when it is maximized on the laptop LCD. So the dropdowns that are shorter than 80 pixels were still going down (and getting hidden behind my taskbar), and the ones that are taller than 80 pixels were going up. Another workaround, based on this. In Display Properties, Settings, make sure that none of your other desktop areas extend below the one that OO.o is currently residing on. For example, align all of them at the bottom -- must use arrow keys for fine adjustment, since XP "helpfully" snaps the tops into alignment when you get close. This unfortunately seems necessary to redo (XP's fault) each time the external monitor is reconnected. Anyway, this makes all the dropdowns go in the correct direction. I believe that it would be in principle possible to fix this behavior in OO.o. Whatever decides the directions the dropdowns go would have to keep track of the available area (minus the taskbar) on the current screen. Clearly this kind of information is accessible somehow: the window manager maximizes OO.o properly to fill the screen it's on, keeping it from overlapping the taskbar, etc. Also, my mouse won't drive off the screen to the bottom no matter how the monitors are set up. (And as I bet OO.o developers love to hear, MS Office doesn't suffer from the same problem ;-).) As I'm not a programmer, though, and I know even less about how OO.o is put together, I obviously have no idea how much effort it would take to fix something like this. To me it seems likely to be a general thing that would affect all the toolbars in all the OO.o applications. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
