Thanks, Paul, and the others who chimed in.
I'm familiar with the documented features for screen metrics, just
trying to determine if the rect of the main screen no longer being the
reference point for metrics is a change/bug I need to be concerned about?
And this got me thinking about screenLoc: if the main screen isn't the
reference point, then is the screenLoc adjusted for the non-0,0 corner
or is it based on the sum boundary of all connected monitors?
And is any of this platform-specific?
Or different from how it's been since the plural screenRects was introduced?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Paul Dupuis wrote:
On 5/4/2021 8:20 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Paul Dupuis wrote:
With multiple monitor, zero vertical is the top of the top most
monitor - regardless of whether it is the primary monitor or not.
If the screenRect is no longer based on the main monitor, what is the
screenloc?
In a multi-monitor setup, with metrics like that how can one be
expected to center a window?
screenRect still returns the rect of the main monitor
and
the first line of the screenRects is still the rect of the main or
primary monitor (the one with the menubar/taskbar)
however, you can not count on its left,top of the primary monitor being
0,0 in a multiple monitor configuration. It may be or it may not be
depending of where the second (or more) monitors are in relation to the
primary one. Took me a while to figure this one out based on a
customer's reported symptoms!
Also, if you think you may have customers with multiple monitors, the on
desktopChanged message is your friend. I ran into a customer who would
often leave HyperRESEARCH running, minimized or hidden, and then remove
a external monitor from their laptop to go. LiveCode still thinks the
monitor is attached and when they placed HR windows on that external
monitor, those windows were no visible or accessible (unless they quit
and restarted HR). Now I have a desktopChanged handler that gets the
screenRects and checks to see if every open window is inside a current
screenRect and moves the windows if needed.
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