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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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Registered: August 2003

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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?
>
>
> 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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		Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 By: portshome on Tue, 05 August 2003 15:05
		Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 By: Rick Towler on Fri, 08 August 2003 15:42
		Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 By: portshome on Mon, 11 August 2003 09:06
		Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 By: portshome on Fri, 08 August 2003 12:23
		Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 By: portshome on Fri, 08 August 2003 12:11
		Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 By: Rick Towler on Thu, 07 August 2003 09:02
		Re: Floating bases in IDL 5.6 vs. IDL 5.4 By: westrick85 on Wed, 06 August 2003 06:17

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