Window Positioning

[eagledeer]

Is there a way to input coordinates so that the window shows up on my second monitor? Right now, the values are always applied to the principal monitor where the window always boots.

Thanks

[zorlac]

is this for the initial window, or for the touch window?

[eagledeer]

The Touch Window. Basically, I now go through the following: (i) fire up TB; (ii) load profile; (iii) drag window to 3rd monitor; (iv) window will not move once on 3rd monitor unless I double click title bar and have it maximize to first monitor then drg down again to 3rd monitor; (v) open TB tab to maximize window on 3rd monitor and remove title bar. If possible, I would like to set up so that once I load profile, it maximizes to 3rd window automatically.

Thanks

[zorlac]

right now, there isnt, but it got me thinking:

How about a touchwindow offset in the touchbuddy.cfg file on each user's machine? these offset would be applied to any positioning info in a profile:

In the profile:

[new-window]
xpos = 0
ypos = 0
[end-window]

in touchbuddy.cfg:

profile_xpos_offset = 640
profile_ypos_offset = 0

which would shift the loaded profile over to the right by 640 pixels. Would that work for you? Its a good idea, and I have added it to my to-do list already

[eagledeer]

Sounds great, but I assume that would involve working out the offset to the smaller touchscreen located below the main screen (112,768 if main screen is 1024 and touch screen is 800 I assume). Probably not difficult-Its easy with cuurent x,y coordiantes as I simply look at the tb tab. Not knowing anything about programming, would it be feasible to have a config line such as win 2 x,y, where the program would know to locate at x,y on the identified screen 2?

Thanks Zorlac

[zorlac]

fire up the profile, move the window to where you want it, select the *TB* tab, and check out the window position information line.



Thats the X/Y offset you would use for the offset

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Zorlac, I'm not sure I understand the offset thing. Won't the final position of the window depend on the Window position info in the profile? So, how do you know where the screen would really end up?

FYI: I have been thinking of adding a 'Default' button in the Toolkit for the past few days. It would go next to the Window Position info on the Window tab so you can set it to a default value. For me that would be -800, 546, because my touchscreen is always on the lower left. This default info would be editable in the Toolkit preferences.

This way, when you download new profiles you could quickly set it's position for your system.

[zorlac]

Originally Posted by Wild.Bill.Kelso

Zorlac, I'm not sure I understand the offset thing. Won't the final position of the window depend on the Window position info in the profile? So, how do you know where the screen would really end up?

good point... not all profiles will be created with 0,0 as their X/Y position.

FYI: I have been thinking of adding a 'Default' button in the Toolkit for the past few days. It would go next to the Window Position info on the Window tab so you can set it to a default value. For me that would be -800, 546, because my touchscreen is always on the lower left. This default info would be editable in the Toolkit preferences.

This way, when you download new profiles you could quickly set it's position for your system.

So its a default X/Y position for the users kit, and when they download a profile, they can load it into TBTk and set the X/Y to the default for that system? That could work.

eagledeer - as a short term fix, load the profile into TBTK and set the window positioning manually (using the *TB* tab info above), then save the profile out. It should then start at that location when you load the profile into TB.

[Wild.Bill.Kelso]

Originally Posted by zorlac

So its a default X/Y position for the users kit, and when they download a profile, they can load it into TBTk and set the X/Y to the default for that system? That could work.

Yes, that's it. TB could have a default postioning too in the touchbuddy.cfg or the local version. It could override the info in the profile and include the titlebar and full screen settings as well. I have my A10 profile setup to postion on my touchscreen, with no titlebar and maximized. It works like a charm. IMO most people will only have one screen and this will work fine. If they have more than one screen I'm not sure if it would be useful for them.

FYI: I used TB with my A10 profile for about 2 hours last Saturday and had no problems at all. It's the same version (R4) that I was having problems with before. I don't understand why it works now, or I had those problems before, but it worked like a charm all Saturday night.

[eagledeer]

Many thanks guys