Popups and Multi-Monitor

[Fred Slota]

So, I run a multi-monitor setup, and get annoyed by every single pop-up.  Usually, I run ComicBase on a secondary monitor (which is wider than my laptop and shows more columns in the grid) with other things happening in the primary laptop screen, and every single popup and sub-window opens in middle of my main monitor.  Change settings - main monitor.  Check for updates - main monitor, Add by Barcode - main monitor.  Would it be possible to have these windows open in the window that the program is actually running in?

[Peter R. Bickford]

Those windows will open on their last position--UNLESS (and this is probably what's doing you in)...
- The monitor geometry has changed such that the window would be offscreen, or...
- You're running a different version number of ComicBase (even the tiny build versions will reset the window positions, as it's difficult/impossible to track when a build involved any changes to a form's size; so, ComicBase resets all window positions to opening dead center on the main screen whenever the build number changes from the last one you ran.

 

 

[Fred Slota]

Let's test that.

 

Laptop currently running with both auxiliary monitors on.

Launch ComicBase (2025.1.1.1973).  Splash in center of Laptop Screen.  Opens full screen on the Laptop screen.  Move to the right aux monitor and Full Screen on Right.  Close ComicBase with X button, closes after backing up database (backup progress popup in Aux monitor)

Relaunch ComicBase.  Splash in center of Laptop Screen.  Opens full screen on the Laptop screen.  Move to the right aux monitor and Full Screen on Right.

 

File | File Tools.  File Tools window opens in the center of the laptop screen.  Move to the right monitor.  Dismiss File Tools window.

File | File Tools.  File Tools window opens in the center of the laptop screen.  Move to the right monitor.  Manage Picture and Movies.  Window opens in the center of the laptop screen.  Move to the right monitor.  Dismiss Window.

Manage Pictures and Movies.  Window open in the center of the laptop screen.  Dismiss both windows.

 

Setup |Preferences.  Preferences window opens in the center of the laptop screen.  Move to the right monitor.  Cancel the Window.

Setup | Preferences.  Preferences window opens in the center of the laptop screen.  Cancel the window.

 

Double Click an issue (in ComicBase full screen in the right monitor).  The Issue information window opens in the middle of the laptop screen.  Move to the right monitor.  Cancel the window.

Double Click an issue.  The issue information window opens in the middle of the laptop screen.  Cancel the Window.  File | Exit.  ComicBase (backup progress popup in Aux monitor).

 

Nope.  Not happening for me.

[Steven L. Dasinger]

At a guess, it probably has to do with a Laptop being used with a second monitor (not sure exactly why). I think if it was two monitors on a Desktop, it would probably work.

[Fred Slota]

I have other programs that have no problem remembering that they were closed when full screened on the side monitors.  I typically operate with Chrome full screened on the left monitor, and as long as that is the last Chrome window I close, when I later launch Chrome, it opens full screened on the left. 

I actually am slightly annoyed by the reverse issue with most programs.  I tend to leave my laptop on my desk, hooked up to both monitors, but I normally don't turn on the right monitor most of the time.  If I last used File Explorer or Excel on the right monitor, when I launch it later, it opens on the turned-off-but-still-connected monitor, forcing me to shift in my seat and reach to turn that monitor back on to move the window back off that monitor. 

So, there shouldn't be a problem with ComicBase remembering where it was and reopening in the same place.

[Steven L. Dasinger]

I see. I wasn't really clear on my previous post. I meant that a Laptop/second monitor my have some special/extra/different attributes to program for compared to a Desktop with two monitors. From your description, it sounds like it should be possible but for some reason, CB doesn't deal with it well (or maybe it has something to do with Chrome?).

[Fred Slota]

So, after setting my pictures directory back to the standard one and turning the "download new covers automatically" back on, which involved three pop-ups opening on my laptop instead of my right monitor, I go to check for updates...

 

Check for updates small pop-up in the center if my right monitor.

Comicbase 2025 Archive Edition window with animated logo large pop-up in the center of my right monitor.

ComicBase 2025 Archie Edition "A new content update is available.  Download it now? Y/N" pop-up in the center of my right monitor.  Click yes.

Update Options window appears int he center of my right monitor.  Click Update.

 

Downloading Update appears in the center of my laptop monitor.  Move to the right monitor.

Processing Update appears in the middle of my laptop monitor.

 

Just some more information about different window location behaviors to help.

[Fred Slota]

Oh, BTW, the Find Window will usually reopen in the last position, even when on my right monitor screen.  I'm uploading new scans, so I'm running and re-running an Advanced Find for 

 

(I.[Marked] = TRUE) AND (I.[PictureHeight] IS NULL)

 

which I rerun after adding pictures, title by title (avoiding issues when my search has multiple titles with identical issue numbers).  Reopening the search window, whether by clicking the magnifying glass, or reselecting Find | Advanced Find, and the Find window reopens where I last left it, which was fully but off center in my right monitor.

So, at least one aspect of  ComicBase is able to maintain a repeated window location in one of my secondary monitors.