Bug: jumping stack windows (when supress messages is off)

[David Bovill]

Sure Mark. This week I’m doing a sprint on this topic - finishing on Sunday. As part of that work I’ll be recording more videos in Livecode and will post them next week together with some documentation. If you want a quick touch base before that I’d be happy to do a Zoom and do a show / tell.
On 11 Oct 2020, 11:37 +0100, Mark Smith <marksmithhfx at gmail.com>, wrote:
> Completely off-topic, but could you post a brief description of how you made that video David (or send me a PM)? I have to do something similar in the near future and it would be good to know what kit/software you recorded with.
>
> Cheers and thanks,
> Mark
>
> > On Oct 9, 2020, at 3:18 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here is a video describing the bug - or at least I am assuming it is a bug. Very curious to see if anyone else is experiencing this issue:
> >
> > • https://vimeo.com/466580164
> >
> > On 9 Oct 2020, 14:48 +0100, David Bovill <david.bovill at gmail.com>, wrote:
> > > I’m getting pretty curious about this bug :)
> > >
> > > Testing mouse clicks- and not stacks jumping position when moving their location - I find that a stack that is successfully moved between the four quadrants of the screen - accepts mouse clicks accurately in the bottom-left, top-right and bottom right quadrants - but in the top-eft quadrant the mouse-click interactions are offset vertically in a way that is compatible with the stack jump. So if you manage to locate the. Stack without it jumping - in the top-left quadrant the mouse clicks are off.
> > >
> > > Monitor settings are set for default value of the MacBook Pro display. I think I’ll make a short video of this behaviour.
> > > On 9 Oct 2020, 14:35 +0100, David Bovill <david.bovill at gmail.com>, wrote:
> > > > Also tested on Livecode 8.1.5 with same results.
> > > > On 9 Oct 2020, 14:00 +0100, David Bovill <david.bovill at gmail.com>, wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Windows intermittently jump to a location on the screen when I move windows. It’s got too annoying to ignore.
> > > > >
> > > > > • Is anyone else having this problem?
> > > > >
> > > > > I am testing this on Mojave and Livecode 9.6.1 rc2. I am testing this without any of my own code such just was IDE stacks. This I “think” is quite a long standing bug that I suspect is related to the global coordinate system as I have been working around this for quite a while now.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Detail
> > > > > The location of the jump seems to be the same horizontal x location. But with the vertical value being reset to the halfway point.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am testing by. Simply moving the message box. It is intermittent - so occurring about once every 5 moves, and strangely is happening only when the top left of the stack window is within the top left quadrant of the screen. Using. The following code int eh message box I find the top of the message box stack is always 492 after a jump (see below). This appears to be related to half the screen less the decorations like menu?
> > > > > put the screenrect & CR & the rect of stack” Message box"
> > > > >
> > > > > 0,0,1680,1050
> > > > > 215,492,634,640
> > > > >
> > > > > As a further indication that the problem is due to the IDE, I find that creating a test stack (no scripts or controls) exhibits the same behaviour - but this behaviour can be suppressed by choosing “Suppress Messages” from the “Development” menu. This suppression has no effect on the message box or other IDE windows which still jump intermittently.
> > > > >
> > > > > The problem is most intense when working with multiple screens. For at least a couple of years stacks I create and place on second or third monitors receive mouse clicks in the wrong location. This happens on different machines, and different. Monitor setups. Only tested on Macs.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am currently creating a multiscreen app - so taking the tracking down. Of this bug more seriously. The current tests are one on my laptop without external monitors, and having restarted the computer (several times). Applications other than Livecode don’t suffer this problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > How should I report this bug - should I submit a video / screen recording?
> > > > >
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