I also use dual monitors and would appreciate a similar fix, cheers, Keith
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PIRA > (Preethi Ramaiya) > Sent: Saturday, 26 March 2005 9:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Artemis-users] Window placement request > > > Hi, > I use a similar set-up dual monitors and that would be a nice > to have feature in Artemis. > :-) > > Preethi > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brooke Peterson-Burch > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 12:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Artemis-users] Window placement request > > > 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/art> emis-users > > > _______________________________________________ > > Artemis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sanger.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/art> emis-users > _______________________________________________ Artemis-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sanger.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/artemis-users
