Multiple Monitors ; However, LC IDE want a 0,0,X X working rect.

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami]

I raised the second monitor, then adjusted the arrangement in Mac OSX prefs. It changed everything

I hide to fiddle with

set the  topleft of stack "revMenuBar"  to 0,22
save stack "revMenuBar"

put locations didn’t stick on reboot....

so I wiped ~/Library/RunRev/##preferencesA##

reboot, then it change

We should not need to wipe the preferences just to set up for new  a monitor arrangement

Definitely could use a command for this 

BR


 

On 6/15/18, 11:10 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    I have a development menu which has, among other things a command that simply sets the loc of the top stack to the screenloc. Centers the stack in the monitor. 
    
    I also have found it necessary to record the rect and loc of the stack on close so I can restore it on open. 
    
    Bob S
    
    
    > On Jun 15, 2018, at 12:22 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
    > 
    > There on old LED Cinema display that was not worth seeing (slightly dimmed) and I tried hooked it up my may book program on with the 32inch LG curved display, this giving three monitors.
    > The effective working screenrect(s) are as follows
    > 
    > 0,455,3440,1872		 # Display 1 the LG
    > -1680,1463,0,2490 		# Display 2, the LED Cinema display
    > -2560,23,0,1440		# my MacPowerbook
    > 
    > The problem in the arrangement is: if I set the LC IDE to open on any of these, the stacks in my app open where I expect to but
    > 
    > Stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" (SE)
    > 
    > 0,454,1264,1456
    > 
    > So to the Prefs stack, ) revPreferencesGUI 
    > Property Inspector
    > 
    > Fortunately there is a work around. I open script editor. Set the working rect to 
    > 
    > 0,600,1264,1456 # this get the whole the screen. Then you *must* make change, like add what space, save the editor in it's new location. Had to fiddle the rect of revPreferencesGUI also. Save. 
    > 
    > Then quit LC and open in again. It in the new location.
    > 
    > I realize how tricky it would be... perhaps this should be a "resetToNewMonitorSpace" space which wipes the loc the IDE stack and relocates  them in  relation to the rect on the revMenuBar, which appears in the right locations.
    > 
    > The rect of other stacks could be set to +100 on topLeft. [fake code]
    > 
    > Put rect with revMenuBar to tRelocate
    > Put (item 1 of tRelocate + 100)  into tLeft
    > Put( item 1 of tRelocate  +100) into tTop
    > 
    > Repeat [for all stacks x in IDE]
    >  Set rects of stack [x] 
    >  Set the topLeft for stack [x]  to tLeft,tTop
    > ## offset they don't appear in top of each other
    >  Add 20 to tLeft
    >  Add 20 to tTop
    > End repeat
    > 
    > Brahmanathaswami
    > 
    > 
    > 
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