Obtaining the "active" Desktop/Monitor under OSX?

[Trevor DeVore]

 I am not at my computer to confirm this but I believe the "screen
"property of a stack returns the number of the screen that the stack is on.
That number represents the line offset of the screen in the screenrects
property.

-- 
Trevor DeVore


On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 9:59 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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