[Dxbase] Re: Dual monitor BUGS

Sun Dec 18 09:45:38 EST 2005

I misunderstood the original letter I guess.
I just redid the experiment and found that my system did behave as described by Charles.
I do have some other programs that misbehave using dual windows, LoTW is one where no 
matter how I try to save window locations and positions parts of LoTW open where they want 
to.
Sorry to add confusion to the original email.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dougherty (W2IRT)" <w2irt at comcast.net>
To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: [Dxbase] Re: Dual monitor BUGS
> At 04:01 18-12-05, you wrote:
>>From: Charles Gallo <Charlie at TheGallos.com>
>> Discovered 2 bugs in DXBase2006 today
>>>>I just got flat screen for my birthday (I have a nice XYL), and have
>>discovered that if you run DXBase on your "secondary" monitor, and you
>>grab the scrollbar - the little popup that tells you were you are
>>shows up on the main monitor
>>>>The second, and worse bug is that when you go to pull down a
>>combo box (single select listbox?) in the LOG window, it does NOT appear
>> <snip>
>>>From: "FireBrick" <w9ol at billnjudy.com>
>>>>that does not occur on either of my in-shack dual monitor computer systems.
>>If I move DXB to the 'secondary' monitor on either, the drop downs appear on the 
>>secondary.
>>>>One of my system is a NVIDIA dual port and other is a Matrox dual port.
>>Check the software that came with your dual port as most have a 'open within program' 
>>option.
>>> Just checked and it does exactly what Charles described. I normally run DX Base on my 
> left monitor, which is display number one. I moved it to the right (I had to use the 
> mid-size window to do so, dragging the top bar doesn't work when it's full-screen for 
> some reason) and restored it to full-size.
>> Once it was fully up on the right side I attempted to click the IOTA drop-down list, 
> then the prefix, mode and QSL VIA boxes. They would not open at all, and only every 
> second click would even permit the button to depress. When the button was "clicked" but 
> didn't appear to do anything, using the arrows WOULD allow you to change the contents of 
> the box (but with no list displayed). Click it again, and use the arrows, and you'd move 
> between records. If the screen is in the non-maximized mode and spans the two monitors 
> it behaves the same (drop down boxes work if it's on the primary but do not work 
> properly if they're on the secondary).
>> I can also confirm that the pop-up box containing [ROW: 12345678], which appears when 
> you move the scroll bar up or down to show which record number you're using, will only 
> appear on the primary display, and always hugging the right border of the screen. This 
> one's no real biggie, to be honest.
>> I'm using an NVidia dual-display card (one analogue, one digital) and a pair of matched 
> Samsung 172N LCD flat-panels under Win2K Pro.
>> My radio computer is my only dual-headed box so I have nothing else to try it on.
>>> - Peter
>> W2IRT
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