Subject:Minor multi-monitor issues (bugs?)

Posted by: darrena

Date:11/13/2008 10:36:37 PM

I have an ultralight SonyTZ laptop that works great with AP7. But the new mixer feature kind of demanded a big monitor, so I bought an Acer 22" LCD because I found it for $166 on buy.com and I figured AP7 really deserved the extra space. So it arrived today and I hooked it up. I immediately noticed some oddities.

I run the big monitor as my secondary display in multimonitor mode. It's the secondary display, which is safer because if something funky happens when I undock, at least the task bar is at the bottom of the laptop monitor.

I'm running the main AP7 window maximized on the 22in LCD and the VST and VSTi window on my main (laptop) monitor. It looks like AP7 has some strange behavior in how it opens up dialog boxes.

Some seem to properly parent to the right window and some don't. For example, if I choose Edit/Midi Processes and Filters, the dialog comes up on the laptop monitor (bad). It should parent to the main Acid window, whatever monitor it's on. The same problem happens when you choose right-click, Clip Properties for either MIDI or audio clips.

Another backwards one is when you click Edit Chain... which parents to the main Acid window when it should parent to the Audio Plug-in Window.

Basically it seems like the devs only tested this on one monitor and didn't use any consistent rules as to when a dialog parents to the window it was opened from, the main acid window, or the main monitor.

In my opinion, every dialog should parent to the window it was opened from. And every user-positionable window that you can dock and undock should remember where the user dragged it. Those should be the only two rules.

Could you maybe pull a tester for a day and have him do an exhaustive multi-monitor window audit to bug all of the specific issues?

Subject:RE: Minor multi-monitor issues (bugs?)

Reply by: pwppch

Date:11/13/2008 11:20:45 PM

Thanks for your feedback.

Peter