| Positioning On-Line Help [message #55892] |
Sat, 15 September 2007 07:53 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
A month or so ago, I explained on this newsgroup how
after dropping my coffee mug on my keyboard my IDL on-line
help no longer appeared over on my second monitor where
I wanted it, but instead came up on my first monitor.
I haven't been able to figure out how to get the damn
think back where I wanted it...until this morning!
Since I got nothing but deafening silence from my
first post, I presume this is NOT something that is
general knowledge among the usual experts here. :-)
So, let me explain how this works. (Alas, all of this
will probably disappear when the new Eclipse-based
IDLDE makes it appearance, but...)
I have icons on my desktop to open IDL 6.4 and to
open the IDL Help. When I click the IDL Help icon,
it opens in a full-sized window. As I say, it *used*
to open on my second monitor, but after fumbling for
my coffee mug and punching various keys inadvertently,
it started opening on my first monitor, obscuring my IDL
session. To move it, I have to make it smaller than
the full window, drag it over to the second monitor,
then resize it, etc. Two hours lost every day!
Here is how I got it back where I want it.
I opened an IDL session, and opened on-line help from the
IDLDE Help button. Of course, it overlaps my IDL session.
Then, I dragged the perverse idiot over to my second monitor.
BUT, instead of maximizing the on-line help at that point,
I exit IDL. Whooha!! Now, when I start IDL and start help,
it goes over to my second monitor. AND, it also starts in
the right place when I click the HELP icon. But, of course,
it is not maximized. BUT, once I've got it on the right
monitor, I can use the same process I just used to do the
same thing with a maximized help. (That is, start IDL, get
the help on the right window, maximize help, then exit IDL.)
Now everything works perfectly!
The secret, I think, is that the window cannot be maximized
when you start this process. Very strange. But I thought I
would make a written record, since I am unlikely to remember
this when I drop another mug. :-(
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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