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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
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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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		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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