DataRefTool Search Window not showing

[a533]

Great app. I have found this bug:

I have a computer with two monitors. My xplane has this settings:

• Main Monitor: Unused
• Monitor 1: Full Screen Simulator

When I go to “Plugins” → “DataRefTool” → “Search” no windows shows. This is because the DataRefTool windows is “hidden” in the Main Monitor, which X-Plane is not using. I have to go to “Settings”→”Graphics” and select “Main Monitor” to “full screen Window”. Now the “search” window appears in the main monitor, I have to drag the setting window to the second monitor and then select “Main Monitor” back to “unused”. This has to be down every time I load X-Plane.

I think of two possible solutions:

1. That DataRefTool checks if the “Main Monitor” is set to “unused” and draws the window in the next available monitor.
2. That DataRefTool remembers the location of the last open window.

Thanks a lot for the excellent plugin. A533

[leecbaker]

Hi @a533,

Thanks for the bug report. Your explanation definitely seems plausible. I don't have time to investigate more during this week or next week, but I will take a look at this eventually.

-Lee

[Gunduran]

I need to come back to the topic also.

The issue is (at least reproducable on my side) whenever you have multiple monitors with different screen sizes.

My configuration in this direction from left to right) : A (1) Philips 49" monitor (5120 x 1440 max configured by default to 3840 x 1040) a (2) ASUS 28" monitor (3840 x 2160) and an older (3) ASUS 21" (1680 x 1050)

When setting up the new computer, I wanted to use monitor (2) as my Windows main monitor and the rest as required. For sure in X-Plane I want to use the monitor (1) for the main display.

Configured this way, X-Plane started, want to show datareftool==> Nothing there.

Changed to "Windowed" and the datareftool is there. Changed back to Full screen, not there.

After many tries I changed my window setting to have in Windows also monitor (1) as the main window.... And after this everything is running fine.

But I would like to go back to the original configuration (e.g. to have the taskbar fully visible on my main screen) and I looked to the developper description and tried to analyze the different situations a bit more.

I guess, the function XPLMGetScreenBoundsGlobal is not well used by the program (and also not by xchecklist by the way). Or the standard API has some issues with the screen size.

Again as a summary:

1. If the windows main monitor is equal to the x-plane full screen monitor, everything is working fine

2. if the windows main monitor is different than the x-plane full screen monitor, the calculation of the datareftool window is wrong, when the total XPLMGetScreenBoundsGlobal is returing a bigger size than it could be displayed (see the https://developer.x-plane.com/sdk/XPLMGetAllMonitorBoundsGlobal/ and other documentation).

Perhaps you could take a closer look to the implementation. Best wishes, Detlev

[dvsingletary]

I'm having the same issue since upgrading to the 2021-07-14 release from the 2020-03-23 release.

[Clamb94]

I have the same issue and had the same issue with my own plugin, but fixed it eventually. If you @leecbaker want, I can have a look at it here and try fixing it

[dvsingletary]

hey @leecbaker , any chance you can release a build that contains the fix provided by @Clamb94 ?

[leecbaker]

This change will be in the next version of DRT. Thanks for the suggestion everybody, and thanks for figuring out the code @a533 .

I will leave this issue open until the new version of DRT is released with this fix.