datareftool Dialog not visible

DataRef tool does not display dialog if x-plane running in monitor 2, etc. It will always paint dialog on the main monitor. Thanks for sharing the code

Jul 14 '18 16:07 temoi

@temoi Thanks for the report. That's interesting- I wonder if this is just a bug in X-Plane?

I'm leaving this task open until I can test this on a second monitor.

Sep 14 '18 08:09 leecbaker

I've had reports from another user with 3 monitors about the search windows appearing so far off screen that they were not visible. Sounds like this needs to be addressed soon, so expect a change in the next release of PlaneCommand.

Nov 02 '18 09:11 leecbaker

Lee, just a note that this issue still exists, have the same problem as I have Xplane on my secondary monitor, DRT loads its windows on my primary monitor, which has no Xplane thus I cannot see them.

Mar 13 '19 22:03 ivq001

Hi @ivq001, thanks for confirming this. Unfortunately I have not had time to fix the issue- will try to prioritize this fix in the next week or so.

Mar 14 '19 13:03 leecbaker

Sounds good! As a note, in my example, having 2 monitors and a full-screen Xplane being on the secondary, not primary, my X/Y coordinates would look like -1280/720 for centre of my 2560x1440 monitor. Note the negative sign, that is how Xplane defines the coordinates for secondary. I know it does different things for primary, for windowed versus full-screen, etc, looks rather complex to me when reading the XPLMDisplay API...Ian

Mar 14 '19 16:03 ivq001