Also, the point of my previous email is that stack "revMenubar" seems to move around sometimes when you change multi-monitor configurations on Mac, which sets up the conditions for this issue.
Gabe On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 11:52 AM Gabe J <gwj...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've discovered that LiveCode (at least LC 9.6.1) seems to force the > reported top of a manually-moved stack to be the bottom of stack > "revMenubar" + 20, if the stack is overlapping revMenubar (even if > revMenubar is not visible), even if the visual top of the stack is higher > than that. All mouse clicks will be vertically off by whatever offset there > is between the bottom of stack "revMenubar" + 20 and the visual top of the > overlapping, manually-moved stack. > > For example, if you were to run this: > > set the bottom of stack "revMenubar" to 200 > > And then move a stack so that it overlaps revMenubar (manually moving the > stack seems to possibly be a necessary step), if you run "put the top of > ..." for that overlapping stack, it will be 220, even if it is visually > above 220, and mouse clicks in the stack will also be vertically off. > > If I set the position of stack "revMenubar" so that its bottom is above > the highest working screenRect's top + 20 (or whatever the height of the > window's title bars are?), this issue can be avoided. I have made a handler > which does this when the screenRects change. > > I ran into another potential bug where the bottom of a stack couldn't be > positioned in a certain area without it also reporting the top/mouseclicks > incorrectly on a second screen above my laptop's screen, but I haven't > figured out why that is, yet. > > Gabe > > > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 9:58 AM Roger Guay via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Hi Fred et al, >> >> I use the following script to switch the monitor I wish to use for the >> revmenubar and revTools and then position pallets like my own rTools and >> tmAlign3. It is working quite nicely for me with my external monitor >> positioned above my MBP and “Displays have separate spaces” unchecked. >> >> >> on mouseUp >> >> put the screenrects into tsr >> >> if the number of lines of tsr = 2 then >> >> if the left of stack revmenubar = item 1 of tsr then >> >> set the left of stack revmenubar to item 1 of >> line 2 of tsr >> >> set the top of stack revmenubar to item 2 of line >> 2 of tsr + 25 >> >> else >> >> set the left of stack revmenubar to item 1 of tsr >> >> set the top of stack revmenubar to item 2 of tsr >> + 25 >> >> end if >> >> end if >> >> positionPalletes >> >> pass mouseUp >> >> end mouseUp >> >> >> on positionPalletes >> >> set the top of stack revtools to the bottom of stack revMenuBar + >> 20 >> >> set the left of stack revTools to the left of stack revmenubar >> >> set the top of stack rtools to the bottom of stack revMenuBar + 20 >> >> set the left of stack rTools to the right of stack revtools >> >> set the left of stack tmAlign3 to the right of stack revMenubar >> >> set the top of stack tmAlign3 to the top of stack revMenubar >> >> end positionPalletes >> >> >> >> HTH, >> Roger >> >> >> >> > On May 6, 2021, at 1:41 AM, Fred Moyer via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> >> On May 4, 2021, at 5:32 PM, Fred Moyer <fmo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Anyone having problems with multiple monitors and LC? I’m running >> 9.6.1 - Mac. I have a feeling LC is confused because I like to connect and >> disconnect monitors from my MacBook Pro. (Even the MacOS sometimes gets >> confused.) But now LC is doing crazy things — even when no external >> monitors are connected. I’ll move the mouse to the top of a stack window, >> and ask for the Mouseloc and it will return something like "100,-60”. If I >> click a button in the middle of the stack, the click will register in an >> object the 60 pixels above that. It’s not always 60 — the wrongness changed >> as I move the stack around. Other times it works fine. I can’t find a >> pattern to set it off. >> >> >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> Fred >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Thanks everyone for the interesting replies. I learned a lot >> (“desktopChanged", "the working screenrects,” difference between "the >> screenrect" and "the screenrects," etc.) I have a hunch, though, my problem >> may relate to stack RevMenubar and some accommodation the IDE makes for >> “the mouseV” depending on whether RevMenubar is showing or whether you have >> your own menubar or whether that screen has a menubar in it — I dunno. >> I’ve never understood how this works. I notice sometimes, though, when I >> turn on Toolbar Text, it shows up about 100 or 200 pixels down. >> > >> > Fred >> > _______________________________________________ >> > use-livecode mailing list >> > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
