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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this!  This will be really nice.  How do other programs handle
this?

Adam Wolf

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently kicad saves the frame positions as absolutes with no sense
> of displays, This is immediately apparent on OSX due to
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1578637
>
> I have created the attached patch to fix this bug on osx (but i have
> no idea whether it makes the behaviour worse on win/linux so it will
> need to be tested and if necessary the code can be #ifdef'd to osx due
> to osx not handling monitor removal) that will just check to see if
> position is on a connected display and if not then use 0,0 for the
> position. However this will not be good enough if display 1 is larger
> than display 0 and it was maximized on display 1 for example.
>
> Is it worth creating a baseCfgName + "Display" configuration option
> that would allow more flexible resizing of displays without having the
> window spanning between displays, At the expense of being on a
> different display if the order/positioning of displays is changed.
> As part of this instead of FramePos being absolute across all displays
> this would be changed to be the position on display #
>
> Is it worth Checking if Size is greater than the
> wxDisplay::GetClientArea () of the display that the kicad window is
> destined for and if so then reduce the frame size to match. This is
> also an issue as on osx if you maximize pcbnew and close it then
> reopen it, it will not be maximized and will be bigger than the
> available client area on the screen. However this is currently due to
> the maximized setting not being used... is there a reason for this?
>
> Simon
>
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