[Dxbase] Re: Dual monitor BUGS

[Peter Dougherty (W2IRT)]

At 04:01 18-12-05, you wrote:
>From: Charles Gallo <Charlie at TheGallos.com>
>         Discovered 2 bugs in DXBase2006 today
>
>I just got  flat screen for my birthday (I have a nice XYL), and have
>discovered that if you run DXBase on your "secondary" monitor, and you
>grab the scrollbar - the little popup that tells you were you are
>shows up on the main monitor
>
>The second, and worse bug is that when you go to pull down a
>combo box (single select listbox?) in the LOG window, it does NOT appear

<snip>

>From: "FireBrick" <w9ol at billnjudy.com>
>
>that does  not occur  on either of my in-shack dual monitor computer systems.
>If I move DXB to the 'secondary' monitor on either, the drop downs 
>appear on the secondary.
>
>One of my system is a NVIDIA dual port and other is a Matrox dual port.
>Check the software that came with your dual port as most have a 
>'open within program' option.


Just checked and it does exactly what Charles described. I normally 
run DX Base on my left monitor, which is display number one. I moved 
it to the right (I had to use the mid-size window to do so, dragging 
the top bar doesn't work when it's full-screen for some reason) and 
restored it to full-size.

Once it was fully up on the right side I attempted to click the IOTA 
drop-down list, then the prefix, mode and QSL VIA boxes. They would 
not open at all, and only every second click would even permit the 
button to depress. When the button was "clicked" but didn't appear to 
do anything, using the arrows WOULD allow you to change the contents 
of the box (but with no list displayed). Click it again, and use the 
arrows, and you'd move between records. If the screen is in the 
non-maximized mode and spans the two monitors it behaves the same 
(drop down boxes work if it's on the primary but do not work properly 
if they're on the secondary).

I can also confirm that the pop-up box containing [ROW: 12345678], 
which appears when you move the scroll bar up or down to show which 
record number you're using, will only appear on the primary display, 
and always hugging the right border of the screen. This one's no real 
biggie, to be honest.

I'm using an NVidia dual-display card (one analogue, one digital) and 
a pair of matched Samsung 172N LCD flat-panels under Win2K Pro.

My radio computer is my only dual-headed box so I have nothing else 
to try it on.


- Peter

W2IRT