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

[Paul Dupuis]

Sorry,

When I read you posts and saw "windows" I thought you were talking about 
this happening on Microsoft Windows.

I have seen something similar on macOS, but only when you have dual 
monitors and the second monitor has it's top positioned higher than the 
primary monitor.






On 10/9/2020 10:23 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> Window 10 has a snap to feature on by default that will try to snap 
> any window of any application to the edges and resize it to have the 
> screen (or perhaps other options) if the windows is being dragged and 
> the mouse moves close to a screen edge. I have not explored the 
> feature fully, so I am not sure of the details.
>
>
>
> On 10/9/2020 9:48 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode 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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