I also run into the windowing issue, but my situation is, as usual, it seems, more obscure: 1) Have mac mini 2) Use at work with two large monitors 3) Take mini home, where I only have one large monitor
I have learned that AirDisplay (an app that lets you use your iPad as a second monitor) saves a lot of time, even if that functionality isn't very useful to me other than this one case. On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Certainly the thing with secondary and or mirror screens has to be sorted > > out. > > "sorted out" ??? > > [checks watch] > > It's 2013. Since I put a second screen on my mac, I've: > > * converted my custom bankruptcy software from HyperCard to SuperCard (1.5) > * gotten married > * had a child > * closed my practice and gotten a PhD > * returned to practice > * re-written my software as spreadsheets > * had four grandchildren. > * rewritten most of the software in LiveCode > > Yet, > > > If one has 2 or 3 displays attached to one's machine and 1 or more of > them > > is them disconnected > > (or goes "phut") all stacks, palettes and other 'things" of Livecode's > IDE > > should be visible on the > > monitor that is still connected. > > "should". Yet if there is only one screen, and the coordinates are > offscreen, LiveCode still opens the window entirely offscreen, > including the message box and dictionary. > > This wasn't a problem 24 years ago with HyperCard and SuperCard, yet > it appears my granson will turn 5 with Livecodenot having solved this. > > > > I had a similar sort of problem just the other day when I moved my second > > machine up to my villa in the mountains and connected to to a very old > > cathode ray tube job that has a maximum display of 1024 x 768, > > having previously had it connected to a 1920 x 1080 display; my > "revTools" > > stack was nowhere to be seen! > > The screen I attached to my SE/30 was 1024x768, 1 bit. 19" screeen, > with about a two foot deep tube. > > And when it went bad under warranty, I called Ehman. > > "Oh, ship it back in the original container." [1] > > There wasn't one. > > "What???" > > It came on a shipping pallet with cardboard wrapped around and a huge > cardboard top. > > "*groan* Oh, one of *those* ." > > (I had a very early developer screen). > > > > I had to open up the message box (which, luckily, appeared somewhere > > reasonably sensible: I could see the thing) and do a "move stack > "revTools" > > to 100,100: silly and should be unnecessary. Had the message box been off > > screen things would have been even more tedious. > > For other's reference, I've attached a tiny stack that has field with > a button to execute it's contents, an output field to put answers > into, and button to put the message box back (although I think it's > set to 900 for the vertical). > > > > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ 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
