[cotvnc-devel] [ cotvnc-Feature Requests-628117 ] Remember window position
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[cotvnc-devel] [ cotvnc-Feature Requests-628117 ] Remember window position
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2005-07-18 22:23:23
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Feature Requests item #628117, was opened at 2002-10-24 09:45 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by smeger You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=507162&aid=628117&group_id=64347 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Interface Improvements Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Eric Cronin (ecronin) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Remember window position Initial Comment: An option for remembering the last window position and placing the window there on re-connect would be nice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Jason Harris (smeger) Date: 2005-07-18 15:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=351330 serversurfer, if you're comfortable doing so, you may want to build the current version pulled from CVS. I think it'll do what you want properly if you bookmark your connection twice in the Connection dialog with the two different names you want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Hatton (serversurfer) Date: 2005-07-15 18:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=339590 My situation is that I need to use VNC to connect to a WinXP box in order to access a courier dispatch site that only renders properly in WinIE. I keep a large window open on the Mac that is focused on the lower-left corner of the XP screen and displays the browser. This window is frequently obscured by other apps (both on my Mac and on others' Win boxen), so there is a flashing dialog that appears in IE and rings a bell to alert you to a new job in the queue. VNC doesn't transmit sound, and obviously the dialog won't come to the front of the Mac windows, so I opened a second connection to the same box and shrunk that view down to the size of the dialog and focused on the area in which it would appear. I placed this window in an unused corner of my desktop and now the flashing of the dialog alerts me to the fact that a new job is in the queue and needs to be acknowledged. I named the first connection Polaris (the name of the dispatching system) and the second connection Polaris Alert, and used the Set Connection Title option to title the windows Polaris and Polaris Alert. Everything was working wonderfully until I had to quit CotVNC. When I reopened the two connections, both windows were titled Polaris Alert and obviously, they were full screen and had to be readjusted. I suggest creating a Window Prefs section in either the Connection or Connection Profile section. This would allow you to set a custom title for the window and a checkbox to "Save window size and location." This checkbox would enable a button that snapshots the current state of the window. If the user leaves the box unchecked (default) the window for the connection would continue to behave as it does now. I'm thinking that this pref would be better-suited to the Connection itself, but whatever works. The custom window title could be an checkbox-option itself, with the default (unchecked) simply using the name of the Connection in the Servers list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jason Harris (smeger) Date: 2002-10-25 12:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=351330 Okay, I'll add this for the next feature-enhancing revision. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Eric Cronin (ecronin) Date: 2002-10-24 17:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=367047 Maybe a combination of both? A checkbox in connect would be nice since you can override it when making the connection to not get the saved position. But I really like OmniWeb's explicit "Save window size" menu item as opposed to IE's take the last window open's size (which may have been a tiny popup ad) automatically. So I'd lean towards a "Save window position" item in the Edit menu (no toggle) and then a "Use saved position" checkbox when connecting (which remembers its state like the remember password and allow sharing ones). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jason Harris (smeger) Date: 2002-10-24 16:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=351330 That seems reasonable. Do you envision this being a checkbox in the connection dialog, or a checkable/uncheckable menu item that you can set while connected? Or something else? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Eric Cronin (ecronin) Date: 2002-10-24 15:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=367047 The situation I have is the screen I am viewing is (much) smaller than my monitor, so I like it down at the bottom corner of the screen so I can see it while in other apps. The way that I think would surprise me the least is if "remember position" is checked and size of local desktop hasn't changed and size of remote screen hasn't changed then place it at the last saved position; otherwise place at 0,0 maximized as it does now. Basically make it very conservative and only use the old position and size if it looks like absolutely nothing has changed about the setup. But that's just me and I'd definitely be open to other ideas on what good behavior would be. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jason Harris (smeger) Date: 2002-10-24 14:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=351330 Chicken assumes that you want a new window to be either as large as the screen you're viewing, or as large as your monitor, whichever is smaller. I'm not sure how to reconcile the two preferences clearly. I guess it would have to be a user preference. Any suggestions on what the actual behaviour should be? Example: If the new window is smaller than the screen or its size has been changed by the user, use that size next time, otherwise make it as large as possible. Use the preferences to reset the behaviour. It's nasty and would confuse people. I'd like a cleaner way of implementing it before I do anything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=507162&aid=628117&group_id=64347 |