I misunderstood the original letter I guess. I just redid the experiment and found that my system did behave as described by Charles.
I do have some other programs that misbehave using dual windows, LoTW is one where no matter how I try to save window locations and positions parts of LoTW open where they want to. Sorry to add confusion to the original email. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dougherty (W2IRT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 8:12 AM Subject: [Dxbase] Re: Dual monitor BUGS > At 04:01 18-12-05, you wrote: >>From: Charles Gallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Discovered 2 bugs in DXBase2006 today >> >>I just got flat screen for my birthday (I have a nice XYL), and have >>discovered that if you run DXBase on your "secondary" monitor, and you >>grab the scrollbar - the little popup that tells you were you are >>shows up on the main monitor >> >>The second, and worse bug is that when you go to pull down a >>combo box (single select listbox?) in the LOG window, it does NOT appear > > <snip> > >>From: "FireBrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>that does not occur on either of my in-shack dual monitor computer systems. >>If I move DXB to the 'secondary' monitor on either, the drop downs appear on >>the >>secondary. >> >>One of my system is a NVIDIA dual port and other is a Matrox dual port. >>Check the software that came with your dual port as most have a 'open within >>program' >>option. > > > Just checked and it does exactly what Charles described. I normally run DX > Base on my > left monitor, which is display number one. I moved it to the right (I had to > use the > mid-size window to do so, dragging the top bar doesn't work when it's > full-screen for > some reason) and restored it to full-size. > > Once it was fully up on the right side I attempted to click the IOTA > drop-down list, > then the prefix, mode and QSL VIA boxes. They would not open at all, and only > every > second click would even permit the button to depress. When the button was > "clicked" but > didn't appear to do anything, using the arrows WOULD allow you to change the > contents of > the box (but with no list displayed). Click it again, and use the arrows, and > you'd move > between records. If the screen is in the non-maximized mode and spans the two > monitors > it behaves the same (drop down boxes work if it's on the primary but do not > work > properly if they're on the secondary). > > I can also confirm that the pop-up box containing [ROW: 12345678], which > appears when > you move the scroll bar up or down to show which record number you're using, > will only > appear on the primary display, and always hugging the right border of the > screen. This > one's no real biggie, to be honest. > > I'm using an NVidia dual-display card (one analogue, one digital) and a pair > of matched > Samsung 172N LCD flat-panels under Win2K Pro. > > My radio computer is my only dual-headed box so I have nothing else to try it > on. > > > - Peter > > W2IRT > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] >
