Obtaining the "active" Desktop/Monitor under OSX?

[Mark Schonewille]

If I execute this

put (the loc of this stack is within -1440,-132,0,768)

on my primary screen, I get false in the message box.

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Op 28-Jun-17 om 16:59 schreef Paul Dupuis via use-livecode:
> I remember when the multiple Desktop feature was introduced on OSX
> (Yosemite I think?) there was a very active discussion on this email
> list about how to tell what monitor (in a multiple monitor
> configuration) your application was starting up on.
>
> I have tried searching for this but my search keyword choices (or search
> skills) are failing me.
>
> Does anyone remember how to do this? Or can point me to the
> answer/workaround from the discussion?
>
> OR has anything been added to the LiveCode language in 8.x.x+ that lets
> an app tell what monitor it is starting up on? I check the 8.1.4
> Dictionary, but I could not find anything.
>
> The 1st line of the screenrects is the "primary" monitor, which with the
> OSX feature is not necessarily the monitor the app is launching on
> running on (it has its menubar on)
>
> Thank you in advance for any pointers/guidance.
>
>
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