...you haven't accidentally done a Control + Mouse scroll-up and just zoomed the display? Easily solved by Control + Scroll-down? Best, Keith..
On 12 Jun 2012, at 16:43, Mike Bonner wrote: > Since you mentioned a second display, you might try a couple things. > Disconnect the second display long enough so that your mac has to > re-configure its settings. Might force it to reset the imac screen. > > Then plug the external back in and wait for it to re-config things again. > > Also might simply see if you can force the old screen to a different res, > wait a few seconds then set it back. > > Without a mac I can't experiment, but.. Is it possible there is a virtual > res setting? (meaning a desktop bigger than the resolution of the display) > on the mac? I've seen such setups where you can scroll around a larger > area than is currently being shown. > > There can also be quirks as far as how dual display is set up, various > modes (stretch, mirror etc) where if your external monitor is a diff res > than the native and the things go wonky, the main screen can display things > based on the settings of the 2nd monitor (so if the 2nd is higher res, > things go weird and the native displays things positionally so that some > things leave the screen) > > There is of course the other option, hardware failure. Could be a popped > capacitor or who knows (not even close to my area of expertise) > > Just read BVGs response, yep, same type of theory. > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon > <effe...@wanadoo.fr>wrote: > >> Hi from "Here", >> >> This is ever-so-slightly a non LiveCode problem, >> but I know that a lot of you guys have Macs, so >> here we go : >> >> I have a two year old iMac 20 inch, flawless since >> I bought it. Today, my screen suddenly went haywire, >> as if I had changed screen resolution (which I didn't). >> >> 1 - I can no longer see Dock on the base of the screen >> 2 - The display flows over into my second monitor >> 3 - Everything on the screen is bigger (icons, etc) >> >> Now on previous monitors, we had controls to solve >> display problems, but on an iMac there are none. >> >> Screen resolution has remained unchanged : 1680 x 1050. >> >> Has anybody had any problems like this, and has a >> solution, or is my iMac dying ? >> >> - Francis >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
