Bug issue - viewer starting window location

[Paul Haskew]

Ah, was not aware of that Thanks for fixing this though!

-Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: James Weatherall [mailto:jnw "at" realvnc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:21 PM
To: 'Paul Haskew'
Subject: RE: Bug issue - viewer starting window location

Paul,

The reason for not using the scheme used by VNC 3.3.7 is that it was very
primitive and didn't know anything about multi-monitor systems (which is the
root of the problem in this case).

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Haskew [mailto:vnc "at" paulhaskew.com] 
> Sent: 03 March 2005 20:16
> To: 'James Weatherall'
> Subject: RE: Bug issue - viewer starting window location
> 
> Thank you for your diligent work to find the problem.
> 
> -Paul
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Weatherall [mailto:jnw "at" realvnc.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:13 PM
> To: 'Paul Haskew'; v4bugs "at" realvnc.com
> Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Bug issue - viewer starting window location
> 
> Paul,
> 
> VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1 attempts to center the window on 
> the specified
> monitor (usually the primary monitor), and the clips the window to lay
> completely within the "working area", i.e. within the area 
> not covered by
> any toolbars, the taskbar etc.
> 
> We did not see the problem you describe during testing and, 
> sure enough, we
> don't see it now on our primary Windows XP SP2 test system.  
> We've since
> tried it on some other systems and have now reproduced it and 
> located the
> problem (which was timing related, possibly explaining why 
> our test system
> didn't exhibit it).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Haskew [mailto:vnc "at" paulhaskew.com] 
> > Sent: 03 March 2005 19:20
> > To: v4bugs "at" realvnc.com
> > Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> > Subject: Bug issue - viewer starting window location
> > 
> > I had this bug with v4 free, and still now in v4.1.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The starting location you have set for the viewer upon 
> > connection to a VNC server is 0,0, which is bad for those of 
> > us who run our task bar at the top of the screen.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > This forces me to have to right click on the program in the 
> > taskbar, select move and use my arrow keys to move it down.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Can this be changed somewhere via a config file, or registry 
> > setting? Or possibly use the same viewer window location 
> > method you did in 3.3.7, which opens exactly centered on the screen.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > System info:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Server: Windows XP Pro SP2
> > 
> > Viewer (Client): Windows XP Pro SP2
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -Paul Haskew
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > PS - I posted this to the new group so others could test 
> this as well.