Hi Brooke It may be an idea to move in that direction anyway. I had not thought about that problem with the dual screen scenario though. :) However as you say there probably aren't that many that will use it in that way.
Thanks for the feedback, Tim On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Brooke Peterson-Burch wrote: > I have a feature request that won't kill me to have ignored by the > developers if its a huge bother since I'm probably in a minority of the > userbase and its just a mild annoyance. Certainly, the other scientists > I've gotten to use Artemis locally don't share this setup. > > My request is that the developers keep in mind the location where the > user placed the last instance of a window when opening new windows of a > similar type. This is not an issue when windows are simply hidden upon > close. > > The systems I use when working with Artemis have a dual-monitor setup. > Because Artemis tends to open dialogs in a screen-centered position > rather than relative to the parent or application window, they are > always nicely split by the borders between the two monitor screens and > must be dragged to the viewable area of one monitor or the other in > order to be sensible. For example, there are many activities in using > the application where I sequentially open a large number of windows to > look at the information for some features or compare them. > > In my own java applications I usually track placement with a rectangle > so that any user-invoked resizing is not lost either. A Point marking > the current window origin would work nicely as well but I just track the > bounds rectangles so I can reuse a single code snippet to place the > windows. > > This may not affect enough users to be worth any coding time. Just > sharing an "I wish..." that frequently runs through my mind when working > with Artemis. :o) > > -=Brooke > > > _______________________________________________ > Artemis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sanger.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/artemis-users > The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK _______________________________________________ Artemis-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sanger.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/artemis-users
