Shameless Plug: If you find yourself doing this kind of thing a lot, I have a visual stack management plugin called tmNavigator that handles this. It shows a resizable thumbnail view of all stacks open your desktop and enables you to drag them around the screen, across multiple monitors.
http://tactilemedia.com/storefront/index.php?page=detail&get_id=34 Happy Holidays, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 12/17/15, 12:47 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter M. Brigham" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of pmb...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Dec 16, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> If I then close the laptop window, come back to work, hook up the >>external moitor again and open a stack that had been open before when >>just using the laptop monitor, the location of the new window is >>partially off screen! That means the title bar is not accessible, and >>therefore not draggable. > >Here's a routine I have in my library that allows scrolling of a window >that is partially offscreen, might come in handy for this kind of >problem. Option[alt]- scroll to move the stack. > >-- Peter > >Peter M. Brigham >pmb...@gmail.com >http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > >--------- > >on scrollStack pStackRef, pDirection > -- allows moving a stack window up, down, left, or right with the >scrollwheel > -- or trackpad > -- pDirection can be "up | down | left | right" or the raw keycode > -- for the scrollwheel output > -- use this for stack windows that are larger than your screen size > -- implement with the rawkeydown handler -- q.v. > -- ([shift-]option-scroll scrolls stack) > -- by Peter M. Brigham, pmb...@gmail.com freeware > -- requires rawkeydown > -- put this handler and the rawkeydown handler into a stack script > > put 10 into speedParam > -- adjust this if you want > put the loc of stack pStackRef into startingLoc > put startingLoc into newLoc > switch pDirection > case "up" > case "65308" > subtract speedParam from item 2 of newLoc > break > case "down" > case "65309" > add speedParam to item 2 of newLoc > break > case "left" > case "65310" > subtract speedParam from item 1 of newLoc > break > case "right" > case "65311" > add speedParam to item 1 of newLoc > break > end switch > move stack pStackRef from startingLoc to newLoc >end scrollStack > >on rawkeydown pKey > -- allows moving a stack window up, down, left, or right > -- with scrollwheel or trackpad > -- hold the option[alt]key down and scroll: > -- scrollwheel: option-scroll for up/down, shift-option-scroll for >left/right > -- trackpad: option-scroll up/down/left/right > -- use this for stack windows that are larger than your screen size > -- by Peter M. Brigham, pmb...@gmail.com freeware > -- requires scrollStack > -- put this handler and the scrollStack handler into a stack script > > put the long id of stack (the mousestack) into tStackRef > switch pKey > case 65308 -- up > case 65309 -- down > case 65310 -- left > case 65311 -- right > if the optionkey is up then pass rawkeydown > scrollStack tStackRef, pKey > break > default > pass rawkeydown > -- or add cases to handle other keys > end switch >end rawkeydown > > >_______________________________________________ >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
