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Bug with multiple monitors

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2008-06-06
2012-11-13
  • P Cause

    P Cause - 2008-06-06

    I use 2 monitors in the office and one at home.  I have Notepad++ on monitor 2 at the office.  I move it to monitor 1 before I shutdown,  I restart and Notepad++ is on monitor 1, but if I do a find, the dialogue is on "monitor 2", which makes it unusable.  If I shut down and restart it is fine.

    Be nice if the app handled this change correctly.

     
    • Fool4UAnyway

      Fool4UAnyway - 2008-06-06

      Other users have encountered this problem as well and reported it before:

      "Feature Req: Better Support for Multi-Monitor" (Open Discussion forum)
      http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1779408&forum_id=331753

       
    • Greg Bullock

      Greg Bullock - 2008-06-11

      Using 4.9.2 on XP Pro, I have so far been unable to reproduce this problem.  I do the following:

      (1) drag N++ to monitor 2,
      (2) use Ctrl-F to open the Find dialog from there -- it opens on monitor 1,
      (3) drag the Find dialog to monitor 2,
      (4) close then reopen the Find dialog to confirm that it's still on monitor 2 (it is),
      (5) close the Find dialog,
      (6) drag N++ to monitor 1,
      (7) close N++ and disconnect monitor 2,
      (8) open N++ -- it opens on monitor 1,
      (9) use Ctrl-F to open the Find dialog from there -- it opens on monitor 1.

      Is this what you do? 

      I'm not sure what you mean by "shutdown" (as in, "I move it to monitor 1 before I shutdown").  Do you mean that you use Start: Shut Down, then Shut Down?  Or is it Start: Shut Down, then Stand By ? (or Log off) ?

      Regards.
      Greg

       
    • P Cause

      P Cause - 2008-06-12

      Not exactly.  Here is what I do.

      - Start npp on monitor 1 move to 2.
      - open find dialogue.  drag to 2
      - make sure still opens on 2.
      - with find closed, drag npp to monitor 1
      - hibernate and restart with only a single monitor connected.
      - open the find dialogue.

       
      • Greg Bullock

        Greg Bullock - 2008-06-14

        Got it.  Thanks.

        I'm able to reproduce the problem, and I'm sending to Don some source code modifications to fix it.

        Regards.
        Greg

         
        • Greg Bullock

          Greg Bullock - 2008-06-16

          Don has confirmed that the modifications will be merged in the v5 beta.

          Regards.
          Greg