Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4083
menu on wrong screen in multiple monitor environment
Last modified: 2002-10-16 14:16:49 UTC
clicking on the main menu on an openoffice document window floating on a secondary screen in a multi monitor setup causes the menu to pop up on the primary screen on the edge thats close to the secondary screen. encountered on windows 2000 but presumably applies to all multi monitor capable windows versions (i.e. win98, winme, win2000 and winxp) guess: the code is probably trying not to put menus out of the visible area.
This behaviour also applies to drop down windows of combo boxes (select font family or size for example) or any drop down box on any dialog that unfortunately happens to be on the secondary screen. I did not encounter any of these popup windows on the same screen where their parent window lives if that parent window is on the secondary screen.
This is not an issue in OpenOffice! The problem is that even system dialogs on the available space are centered under the edge with multi-monitor setup. Example: First start of the I.E. the dialogue for Internet setup. Do you know software, which behaves differently? Please call it me, then I will forward it to our development. Regards Uwe
I am not talking about dialogs appearing on the wrong screen ( i would have to verify that), i am talking about Menus. e.g. the openoffice writer main window is on the secondary screen. I click on "File" in the main menu. the pull-down menu which has the entries "New/Open/Save/Save as..." etc opens on the primary screen. Any other windows software behaves differently.. including notepad Ms office or Internet Explorer. Or, click on the "down arrow" near the font selection combo box on the open office main window. the list of fonts appears always on the primary screen, even if the main window resides on the secondary screen. This applies to all drop down lists on all dialogs. These lists should appear right below their combo box position and not on a different screen. I was refering to the menus and drop down lists as "windows", because technically they are, at least on a windows platform.
Sorry, forgot to assign.. i am new to this bug tracker
I cannot reproduce your problem under Win2000 but it is reproducible under Win98 on the same PC. My used Grafic card is a Matrox Millenium G450 DualHead. Biosversion 1,2,021, Driver version 5.12.01.1210. Please give me more information. Is your setting in this issue for OS (Win2000) correct or wich operating system is used? Which Grafic card is used? Which driver version? Did you change the standard settings?
Created attachment 1424 [details] Screenshot of Menu on wrong screen
Setting of OS is correct. It was observed on german win 2000 with service pack 2. Primary screen is NVidia GeForce 2 GTS, 1280x1024 at 32 bit colors Driver Manufacturer: NVIDIA Driver Date: 2001/09/14 Driver Version: 2.1.8.3, Microsoft Certified Secondary screen is ATI mach64 (SGS VT-A4), 1152x864 at 16 bit colors Driver Manufacturer: Microsoft Driver Date: 1999/12/07 Driver Version: 5.0.2195.1, Microsoft Certified Screenshot of problem attached.
Hi Stefan, I forwarde this issue to you. Possibly it gives you additional information. It is doubly to issue 3428. Please set it as double.
Hi, the problem really is that those windows are tried to position on visible coordinates, but unfortunately I forgot to include additional monitors into the calculation. Strange, this bug was reported 4 times on a single day from different people - I'll check if we can take this one into the next build. Anyway, its a duplicate.... *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 3428 ***
Duplicate, therefore closed