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Cursor-position/mouse-pointer offset problem on IDL+Windows7 [message #87105]

Tue, 07 January 2014 11:51

kagoldberg
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Registered: November 2012

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I'm wondering if anyone has seen/solved this issue with Windows7.

With a widget_draw, object-graphics window on a Windows7 machine, the position of the system's mouse pointer is offset significantly (over 100 pixels) from the position that IDL thinks the cursor is at, based on event.x and event.y? This is with 1:1 scaling, in the model. The problem only comes up on one of my Windows7 installs, running IDL as a virtual machine. It has not been seen on Mac OS X or other Windows7 installs.

To diagnose the problem, I read the cursor XY position and place a small star symbol position reported in (event.x, event.y). According to my colleague using the VM, it was working fine before the holiday break, and now (with no changes to my IDL code) they are seeing this offset. The offset persists after a machine reboot.

I'm wondering if it could be related to their small screen size. My widget is slightly larger horizontally than the pixel width of their monitor, so they shift the IDL window back and forth, left to right.

For what it's worth, on the troubled system, when they interact with other widget objects, like buttons and lists, the system cursor accurately corresponds to the correct position. The problem is only within a WIDGET_DRAW graphic.

Any help is appreciated.

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		Cursor-position/mouse-pointer offset problem on IDL+Windows7 By: kagoldberg on Tue, 07 January 2014 11:51
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