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lukescammell · Post by **lukescammell** » 12 Apr 2007 14:07

and despite all that you already changed the menu, since it pops up on the right monitor now! Smile

Not on tabs he hasn't...

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 12 Apr 2007 21:00

lukescammell wrote:
and despite all that you already changed the menu, since it pops up on the right monitor now! Smile
Not on tabs he hasn't...

No, Tree's ctxt menu either, but i was only referring to the List ctx menu here, so my reason is still valid

Post by **admin** » 20 Apr 2007 12:38

jacky wrote:
lukescammell wrote:
and despite all that you already changed the menu, since it pops up on the right monitor now! Smile
Not on tabs he hasn't...
No, Tree's ctxt menu either, but i was only referring to the List ctx menu here, so my reason is still valid

What about the drag'n'drop custom menu. Does it popup on the correct monitor???

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 20 Apr 2007 17:32

admin wrote:What about the drag'n'drop custom menu. Does it popup on the correct monitor???

Just tested (cause XY is on my main monitor), and no I'm afraid it does not. Neither does the menu when using CKS, eg. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V

Post by **admin** » 20 Apr 2007 17:44

jacky wrote:
admin wrote:What about the drag'n'drop custom menu. Does it popup on the correct monitor???
Just tested (cause XY is on my main monitor), and no I'm afraid it does not. Neither does the menu when using CKS, eg. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V

Good! I was hoping this

(else I would have had trouble to understand it)

When using CKS??? How do you pop the drag'n'drop custom menu by CKS?

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 20 Apr 2007 21:09

admin wrote:When using CKS??? How do you pop the drag'n'drop custom menu by CKS?

Yeah I wasn't very clear, sorry about that...

No, not the D&D menu, I meant using CKS to popup a menu, any menu that has submenus and you can assign KS for, such as Rename Special, Info to Clipboard, etc or, as I mentioned, Paste Special (which has one by default)

Post by **admin** » 20 Apr 2007 21:59

jacky wrote:
admin wrote:When using CKS??? How do you pop the drag'n'drop custom menu by CKS?
Yeah I wasn't very clear, sorry about that...

No, not the D&D menu, I meant using CKS to popup a menu, any menu that has submenus and you can assign KS for, such as Rename Special, Info to Clipboard, etc or, as I mentioned, Paste Special (which has one by default)

Ah, sure! Okay, damn it!

It's impossible to write a workaround for each of these KS-driven popups. So I have to find a bloody FIX for it! Why must you hellhounds use 2 monitors anyway?

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 20 Apr 2007 22:14

admin wrote:Why must you hellhounds use 2 monitors anyway?

hehe... well as I said, AFAIC XY is always fullscreen'ed on my main monitor, so I have no problem whatsoever, menus always popup on the right place for me

The real question is: why would one use XY on his secondary monitor?

Post by **j_c_hallgren** » 20 Apr 2007 22:16

admin wrote: Why must you hellhounds use 2 monitors anyway?

Good thing the guy in this pix isn't using XY in that case! Look at all those monitors!

This is from DL.TV site, and it's the link there to play episode 152.

Update: In case this JPG is unavailable sometime in the future from that site: what it showed was a guy's setup with 13 (yes, 13!) monitors arranged in a semi-circle style so he could play flight simulator games and have it more resemble the view from a cockpit...

Post by **admin** » 20 Apr 2007 22:39

j_c_hallgren wrote:
admin wrote: Why must you hellhounds use 2 monitors anyway?
Good thing the guy in this pix isn't using XY in that case! Look at all those monitors!

This is from DL.TV site, and it's the link there to play episode 152.

Okay okay, I'm convinced. The time for some research is NOW. So a little natural break in CKS development: gotta solve that dual monitor (monitor, not pane

) issue now.

You VB-programmers out there with 2+ monitors: (a) can the X and Y arguments of the PopupMenu() function set so that it pops up on the correct monitor? (b) if yes, how can these values for X and Y be retrieved programmatically?
On my way to yooglebooglezoogle...

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 20 Apr 2007 22:57

admin wrote:You VB-programmers out there with 2+ monitors: (a) can the X and Y arguments of the PopupMenu() function set so that it pops up on the correct monitor? (b) if yes, how can these values for X and Y be retrieved programmatically?
On my way to yooglebooglezoogle...

Well, IIRC this is a VB5 bug, you can't have it to popup menu on another monitor than the main one. not using VB functions at least, you must use APIs. Isn't that the way it's done already, for "working" menus?

See here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 9&start=15

Post by **admin** » 20 Apr 2007 23:10

jacky wrote:
admin wrote:You VB-programmers out there with 2+ monitors: (a) can the X and Y arguments of the PopupMenu() function set so that it pops up on the correct monitor? (b) if yes, how can these values for X and Y be retrieved programmatically?
On my way to yooglebooglezoogle...
Well, IIRC this is a VB5 bug, you can't have it to popup menu on another monitor than the main one. not using VB functions at least, you must use APIs. Isn't that the way it's done already, for "working" menus?

See here: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 9&start=15

Yes, I remember.

Sometimes, when asking the same question again, you get a new answer

But this time you give me the same answer.

Yes API is the way I did it for the "working" menus. But it's a hard way, and it's even harder when the popups have submenus. Now with CKS, suddenly there are many potential popups... could partly be automated/wrapped, but not completely. Not satisfying. There's other more interesting stuff to do, really!

jacky · Post by **jacky** » 20 Apr 2007 23:31

admin wrote:Yes API is the way I did it for the "working" menus. But it's a hard way, and it's even harder when the popups have submenus. Now with CKS, suddenly there are many potential popups... could partly be automated/wrapped, but not completely. Not satisfying. There's other more interesting stuff to do, really!

I hear you. And you have my vote to forget about this & do other stuff, let them switch their monitors if they really need to

Post by **admin** » 21 Apr 2007 07:52

jacky wrote:
admin wrote:Yes API is the way I did it for the "working" menus. But it's a hard way, and it's even harder when the popups have submenus. Now with CKS, suddenly there are many potential popups... could partly be automated/wrapped, but not completely. Not satisfying. There's other more interesting stuff to do, really!
I hear you. And you have my vote to forget about this & do other stuff, let them switch their monitors if they really need to

Thanks for your vote! BTW, I'll fix it for the d'n'd menu and the tab-context menu right now.