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I changed the orientation of my two monitors, and all of a sudden the "answer" dialog, er, appears to be located somewhere off screen. I can dismiss it with a press of the enterKey, but I cannot see it. The "Ask" dialog is just fine.

How does one reset the loc of the answer dialog stack? How does one even query its loc? It is blocking, after all, when in front. I thought the name of that particular stack was "revAnswerDialog". Is that true?

Why me?

Craig

OK, fixed it by playing with the relationship between the two monitors. Odd that the ask dialog don't care, but the answer dialog does,

Craig

Can you post "how" you fixed it?

What do you mean the "relationship between the two monitors"?

When working with MBP and an HDMI attached monitor, this frequently gives me fits (answer dialog disappearing off the top somewhere).
Thanks.

Well here is a "Richmond does silly buggers with 3 monitors" illustration of

the relationship between the two monitors

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While I may be a bit of a silly bugger, I stick with the leftmost setup.

AND, as you can see, my 3 monitors have different sizes:

1600 x 1200
1080p = 1920 x 1080 (not sure why MacOS labels that the way it does)
1280 x 1024

So, if I rearrange the relationship between them all sorts of things can be knocked "out of whack".

I fixed it (on Mac) by going into the displays pane of system preferences and then into the "arrangement" pane. Adjusting the spatial relationship of the two monitors just seemed to reset something.

Craig

Hi,
there's something named "CollectMyStacks" in the "Sample Stacks".
Priceless in such cases, and when the Script Editor decides to hide offScreen, again.

Have fun!

AxWald wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:02 pm

there's something named "CollectMyStacks" in the "Sample Stacks".
Priceless in such cases, and when the Script Editor decides to hide offScreen, again.

FWIW my devolution tool also includes a tool for that, in the right-click menu of its DeskView utility (along with many other goodies).

Such things are useful for windows like the Script Editor, but won't help with dynamically-placed modals like the Answer Dialog. For that we'll need a bug fix. Has this been submitted to the bug DB?