| Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 [message #35973] |
Tue, 05 August 2003 15:05  |
portshome
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A little background, I am using Windows 2000 19" dual monitors and IDL
5.6.
If I declare a top level WIDGET_BASE, using the following syntax
tlb = WIDGET_BASE(/ROW, /FLOATING, GROUP_LEADER=event.top)
then in IDL 5.4 this "child" base of event.top, tlb, would appear
centered over event.top no matter where on my dual monitors event.top
happened to be (first monitor or second monitor). However, in IDL 5.6,
if event.top happens to be in the second monitor, the tlb stops right
at the edge of the first monitor! It seems to want to be centered over
the parent base, but can't make it past the edge of the first monitor.
What's going on here? Why does something that used to work, all of a
sudden doesn't? Does anyone have any explanation as to why this would
be and what I can do about it?
Thanks,
PJ
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| Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 [message #36032 is a reply to message #35973] |
Fri, 08 August 2003 12:23  |
portshome
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"Rick Towler" <rtowler@u.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<bgtt83$2bvu$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>...
> "PJL" wrote in message...
>> A little background, I am using Windows 2000 19" dual monitors and IDL
>> 5.6.
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>> If I declare a top level WIDGET_BASE, using the following syntax
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>> tlb = WIDGET_BASE(/ROW, /FLOATING, GROUP_LEADER=event.top)
>>
>> then in IDL 5.4 this "child" base of event.top, tlb, would appear
>> centered over event.top no matter where on my dual monitors event.top
>> happened to be (first monitor or second monitor). However, in IDL 5.6,
>> if event.top happens to be in the second monitor, the tlb stops right
>> at the edge of the first monitor! It seems to want to be centered over
>> the parent base, but can't make it past the edge of the first monitor.
>>
>> What's going on here? Why does something that used to work, all of a
>> sudden doesn't? Does anyone have any explanation as to why this would
>> be and what I can do about it?
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> Do you have 5.4 *and* 5.6 installed on your machine that you test side by
> side or are you remembering how 5.4 used to behave? Not that I am
> questioning your memory :)
>
> I have noticed that after installing SP-4 certain applications (not IDL, I
> haven't tested it) suffer from this same behavior where child windows that
> used to be centered on their parent on the 2nd monitor now are "realized" on
> the edge 1st monitor.
>
> Maybe this isn't an issue with 5.6?
>
> -Rick
Ok First time I read this post I had no clue what you meant by SP-4.
IDL v5.4 is running on Windows 2000 Version 5.0 Build 2195: Service Pack 4
IDL v5.6 is running on Windows 2000 Version 5.0 Build 2195: Service Pack 2
Go Figure!
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| Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 [message #36033 is a reply to message #35973] |
Fri, 08 August 2003 12:11 |
portshome
Messages: 10
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"Rick Towler" <rtowler@u.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<bgtt83$2bvu$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>...
> "PJL" wrote in message...
>> A little background, I am using Windows 2000 19" dual monitors and IDL
>> 5.6.
>>
>> If I declare a top level WIDGET_BASE, using the following syntax
>>
>> tlb = WIDGET_BASE(/ROW, /FLOATING, GROUP_LEADER=event.top)
>>
>> then in IDL 5.4 this "child" base of event.top, tlb, would appear
>> centered over event.top no matter where on my dual monitors event.top
>> happened to be (first monitor or second monitor). However, in IDL 5.6,
>> if event.top happens to be in the second monitor, the tlb stops right
>> at the edge of the first monitor! It seems to want to be centered over
>> the parent base, but can't make it past the edge of the first monitor.
>>
>> What's going on here? Why does something that used to work, all of a
>> sudden doesn't? Does anyone have any explanation as to why this would
>> be and what I can do about it?
>
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> Do you have 5.4 *and* 5.6 installed on your machine that you test side by
> side or are you remembering how 5.4 used to behave? Not that I am
> questioning your memory :)
>
> I have noticed that after installing SP-4 certain applications (not IDL, I
> haven't tested it) suffer from this same behavior where child windows that
> used to be centered on their parent on the 2nd monitor now are "realized" on
> the edge 1st monitor.
>
> Maybe this isn't an issue with 5.6?
>
> -Rick
Actually these are 2 different computers (similar hardware, same
version of Windows, same monitor configuration) one running IDL v5.4
and one running IDL v5.6. So I have switched back and forth between
the two and that's how I noticed the problem in the first place. So it
seems a little crazy to me that I should have to compensate (with
XOFFSET and YOFFSET) for what an older version of IDL used to handle
with no problem.
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| Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 [message #36054 is a reply to message #35973] |
Thu, 07 August 2003 09:02 |
Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998
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"PJL" wrote in message...
> A little background, I am using Windows 2000 19" dual monitors and IDL
> 5.6.
>
> If I declare a top level WIDGET_BASE, using the following syntax
>
> tlb = WIDGET_BASE(/ROW, /FLOATING, GROUP_LEADER=event.top)
>
> then in IDL 5.4 this "child" base of event.top, tlb, would appear
> centered over event.top no matter where on my dual monitors event.top
> happened to be (first monitor or second monitor). However, in IDL 5.6,
> if event.top happens to be in the second monitor, the tlb stops right
> at the edge of the first monitor! It seems to want to be centered over
> the parent base, but can't make it past the edge of the first monitor.
>
> What's going on here? Why does something that used to work, all of a
> sudden doesn't? Does anyone have any explanation as to why this would
> be and what I can do about it?
Do you have 5.4 *and* 5.6 installed on your machine that you test side by
side or are you remembering how 5.4 used to behave? Not that I am
questioning your memory :)
I have noticed that after installing SP-4 certain applications (not IDL, I
haven't tested it) suffer from this same behavior where child windows that
used to be centered on their parent on the 2nd monitor now are "realized" on
the edge 1st monitor.
Maybe this isn't an issue with 5.6?
-Rick
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| Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 [message #36215 is a reply to message #36030] |
Mon, 11 August 2003 09:06 |
portshome
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"Rick Towler" <rtowler@u.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<bh192r$1km6$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu>...
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> I can confirm that the behavior you see in 5.6 is also present in 5.5 and
> 6.0 on my machine. Win2k SP-4, nVidia GF-4 running 44.03 drivers and
> "DualView".
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> Do the graphics cards and display drivers match on your two test machines?
> There are a few different ways to span your desktop on multi-headed windows
> machines (at least with nVidia hardware) and I don't think you will be able
> to determine the cause until you can test 5.4 and 5.6 on the same machine.
>
> -Rick
I was able to get IDL v5.6 installed on this machine today. So now I
am running both versions on Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 with dual
nVidia video cards (one is a GeForce2 GTS/GeForce 2 PRO and the other
is a GeForce2 MX 100/200) but they are both using the same video
drivers. I tried tweaking the nView properties such as montior
spanning and child window management but that didn't have any effect -
same problems.
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