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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

haha i have no idea, as this is the first time i have ever had
multi-monitor on osx, and that was just because i was playing with
apps that allow one to use an ipad as a 2nd display

Simon

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Adam Wolf
<adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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