Request: A more reasonable startup window position

[brad]

Note: This topic was first discussed in a thread on this forum that did not survive the recent forum outage.  I attempted to post this response at that time when it became apparent that Xavier and I were not reaching an understanding of the problem statement but the post failed.  

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Xavier, thanks for the reply.  

I see the +/- feature you mention and, while that is a nice addition, it
does not solve the problem I am talking about.  I see now that I am not communicating the problem very well so I will try to explain a little better and in more detail (my apologies if I am going into to much detail).

To start with let me clarify what I mean by a dual-monitor system.  A typical dual-monitor video card in the simplest of forms simply tells the operating system that the monitor has a display size of 2048x768 (which is a lie really because it is actually 2 physical monitors side-by-side each of which displays at a resolution of 1024x768).  The left monitor display pixels 0-1024 and the right monitor displays pixels 1025-2048.

Given that, here is what my desktop might look like when I start....
http://uhrichweb2.home.comcast.net/Arturia/Pic1.jpg

Now when I start one of your products (in this case, MMV 2.0) this is what my desktop looks like (note that this image is spread across 2 monitors with the right-side monitor being unnecessarily covered up with dead space)
http://uhrichweb2.home.comcast.net/Arturia/Pic2a.jpg

So here's the part that is irritating.  To correct it I have to do 4 things....

1. "Maximize" the child window....
http://uhrichweb2.home.comcast.net/Arturia/Pic2b.jpg

2. "Restore" the parent window....
http://uhrichweb2.home.comcast.net/Arturia/Pic2c.jpg

3. "Move" the parent window into position....
http://uhrichweb2.home.comcast.net/Arturia/Pic2d.jpg

4. "Resize" the parent window to fit the left-most monitor....
http://uhrichweb2.home.comcast.net/Arturia/Pic3.jpg


Now, if I want to open a session of your MiniMg I must repeat all four of the above mentioned steps in order to get to the following...
http://uhrichweb2.home.comcast.net/Arturia/Pic4.jpg

I hope that better explains the problem.

Here is my request.
1. In stand-alone mode, don't start MMV (or MiniMg) as "maximized".  Instead just start it with a window size of 1024x768 because that's what it requires (2048x768 is too large).

2. (optionally) Open the child window (the one with the new +/- feature) as "maximized" within the parent.  (miniMg already does this)

I realize you have higher priorities but these simple changes would really improve the user experience for those of us with dual monitor systems.

Thanks for listening.

[brad]

In testing the pre-release version of MMV 2.1 this appears to be resolved

Way Cool.

Thank you very much.

There is one caveat though and I hesitate to start reporting issues on pre-release code but if you move the original window from its starting position then select the "Keyboard view" button the window repositions itself on the desktop to x,y coordinates 0,0 (upper left).  Move it again then swith back and it does it again.

Anyway, again... thank you.