to get the top of the window, in the message box do: put the top of stack "revnewscripteditor 1"
Same of course for bottom, left, right, rect, and loc On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Bob Hall via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Is it possible to get the location of the IDE Script editor window? I need > to confirm what I suspect is a bug in 8.1.3 and need the top coordinate of > the IDE script window to confirm for bug report. > > I have a multi-monitor setup for my dev machine. One of the monitors is > portrait, the other is landscape (iMac 27”). As of 8.1.3 on Mac OS X > 10.12.3, the top location of “system” windows (IDE script editor, > answer/ask, toolbar as examples) appear to use the smallest value of EITHER > screen to set the top location of the window and not the top of the monitor > the window opens on. > > This results in IDE script editor, answer/ask not being accessible/visible > as it is off the screen to the top on the Landscape monitor. If the top of > the portrait monitor is “higher” relatively then the landscape monitor, It > appears as though the top location of the portrait monitor is used even > when the window opens on the landscape monitor. I would like to confirm > this behavior thus my question above. > > I searched for a bug about this and while I’m seeing some that are > similar, this I believe is a new one and is actually came from an LC9 > regression. I’ve seen this same thing in LC9 since DP1 and now it appears > in LC 8.1.3 but not 8.1.2 or prior versions. > > For the curious… I will attempt to show in text graphics how the monitors > are oriented. > > (Screen orientation in System prefs using text — I hope this comes through) > ______ > | | > | |__________ > | | | > | | | > | |__________| > |______| > > I use the portrait display for coding (nice and long with ability to have > debugging displayed with lots of room). LC IDE/system windows on the > landscape display have the top of the window set using the value from the > portrait display (I think) as they display off screen to the top. > > If I orient the displays in System Preferences as: > ______ __________ > | | | > | | | > | |__________| > | | > |______| > > Everything works fine as the top of both monitors is the same. The issue > with this is that the monitors are not“oriented to their physical relative > positions so it's a little frustrating to move the cursor from portrait to > landscape and back again. Not a big deal but different and kind of a pain > compared to prior versions. > > This behavior started in LC 8.1.3. LC 8.1.2 works perfectly. > > Thanks in advance, > Bob > _______________________________________________ > 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
