Anyone else got two-monitor issues with LC9 on Mac?

Sun Jan 14 07:13:28 EST 2018

Hi Brian

Well I tried to line up the tops of the two displays using the Mac Control Panel and restarted LC. This did have an interesting effect, in that the windows on the monitor are now accepting mouse clicks, but there is still some very weird stuff, in particular I have a substack with single card (it’s for logging). I am 100% sure that the stack is visible, and its rect is well within what I understand to be the available coordinates of the combined display, but it doesn’t show up! Changing its loc to the screenloc doesn’t do anything either. So there is bad stuff going on here. I’m on a deadline so I can’t look any further just now. Might just have time to restart my machine with the monitor off, but debugging on a laptop ain’t pretty. I suppose I could use the full retina resolution and a magnifying glass… annoying.

Cheers

Graham

> On 13 Jan 2018, at 20:07, Brian Milby <brian at milby7.com> wrote:
> 
> @Graham, to determine if the 2 are related to the same underlying issue, you should adjust your monitor layout so that the tops align. If the problem goes away, then they are related (even if not identical). If the problem doesn’t go away, then it is a new issue. That will be something that is good to know when working on this issue.
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 11:24 AM Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
> Yes, of course it’s an OS thing really. I think it’s reasonable to want the Mac control panel configuration to mimic the physical arrangement I actually have. If I don’t do this, I’m always trying to make the mouse go somewhere which the Mac doesn’t see as part of the screen real estate. Since my physical arrangement is that the monitor is higher and to the side of the MacBook, that’s what I’ve set up in the control panel. The fact that this gives problems has clearly got to be a bug.
> 
> After looking carefully at the bugs Martin has listed (one of which was raised by me, centuries ago!), I decided to submit a new report: it’s 20867. The mother ship may find that they can combine it with 19302, but I will leave that to them.
> 
> Graham
> 
> > On 13 Jan 2018, at 16:55, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
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> > It isn't the physical position of the monitors, it's how you arrange them in the Mac control panel. This allows you to set the virtual position of the two displays relative to each other. If I remember right, problems are avoided if you drag the two monitor images so that the tops are horizontally aligned.
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> > On January 13, 2018 8:51:59 AM Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
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> >> Thanks Martin - yes I do have a Mac Book Pro Retina, and since it’s normally on my desk with the monitor on a stand, the monitor is above the MacBook as you say. My search for bugs related to this didn’t turn up anything relevant: maybe I don’t understand how to do searches for unresolved bugs in particular areas. Anyway I missed the bugs you mention. Obviously I will now look at them and see what I can contribute.
> >>
> >> Thanks again
> >>
> >> Graham
> >>
> >>> On 13 Jan 2018, at 14:34, Martin Koob via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
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> >>> I have experienced problems with dual monitors attached to my Mac Book Pro
> >>> Retina with LC 8 and posted bugs.
> >>>
> >>> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19300 <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19300>
> >>> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19302 <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19302>
> >>>
> >>> There are links on 19302  to other bugs I thought might be related.
> >>> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15366 <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15366>
> >>> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18363 <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18363>
> >>>
> >>> It seems the issue occurs only when the arrangement is that  secondary
> >>> external monitor is above the Mac Book Pro's monitor.  If in the Display
> >>> Preferences > arrangement I drag the secondary monitor to the side of the
> >>> primary monitor the issues I experienced were resolved.   It may also be an
> >>> issue with my retina display.  Do you have a Mac Book Pro Retina as well?
> >>>
> >>> You should post what you are seeing as a bug and reference these other ones.
> >>>
> >>> Martin Koob
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