Issue 59525

Summary:

Right-click menus cut off under some dual monitor configurations

Product:

General

Reporter:

pmineault <lists>

Component:

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

CONFIRMED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

issues, kpalagin

Version:

OOo 2.0

Target Milestone:

AOO Later

Hardware:

All

OS:

Windows XP

Issue Type:

DEFECT

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
Displays Properties screenshot for 7-monitors, under Windows XP SP2.	none

Description pmineault 2005-12-19 04:21:46 UTC

My current configuration is a laptop with a low resolution (1024x768) with an
extended desktop on a higher res monitor (1280x1024). The algorithm used to
digure if a right-click menu should be opened 'up' instead of 'down', or 'left'
instead of 'right' depending on the bounds of monitors used takes into account
the largest of the monitors only. This means that if my mouse is at the bottom
of the 1024x768 screen and I right-click, if the menu is 200 pixels high and
there are only 50 pixels of vertical space below it will open 'down', and 150
pixels will be cut off from the screen. The reason appears to be that only the
largest monitor's height is taken into account (opening 'up' works properly when
on the largest screen). Since 768 + 150 < 1024 (1024 referring to the height of
the largest monitor, not the width of the smallest, obviously), the menu is
opened down.

Additionally, right click menus may span two monitors if the mouse is clicked
sufficiently far on the right, making menus hard to read. The native Windows UI
and many non-native UIs like Firefox's (XUL) have mechanisms to prevent context
menus from spanning two monitors.

Note: this is not issue 42282. That one deals with dialog boxes when the second
monitor is enabled but closed, which is a much less frequent configuration.

Comment 1 thorsten.martens 2005-12-19 09:33:49 UTC

TM->JW: please have a look, thanks !

Comment 2 oorwullie 2005-12-19 19:00:28 UTC

I don't use dual monitors but have this problem when I set my monitor screen
resolution below 1152x864. (by below I mean 1024x768 or less)

Comment 3 rcasha 2006-05-05 13:02:41 UTC

I can confirm this. I have a dual-monitor configuration and they are set up so
that the CRT is to the left of, and about 400 pixels higher than, the laptop
monitor. It also has a higher resolution, so that if there were a rectangle
drawn from the top-left corner of the CRT to the bottom-right corner of the
laptop, there would be two rectangles at the bottom left and top right which do
not appear on either screen. This might be the reason for problems like this.
OOo can pop up its menus so that they are split up between the two screens
(ugly) or so that part of the menu is in that area which is not shown on either
screen.

Comment 4 jack.warchold 2006-05-08 14:22:15 UTC

confirmed by the community.

i can not confirm this on my system with an matrox card, but matrox is the 
specialist on dualscreensystems so it might be different.

set to new, set target to OOo later set Prio to P4

Will be reassigned to the propper developer if i knew who this will be

Comment 5 jack.warchold 2006-05-08 14:22:49 UTC

Comment 6 jack.warchold 2006-05-08 14:25:55 UTC

ok reassigned to TM
please reassign to the proper developer

Comment 7 paul.m.nz 2007-06-26 03:56:54 UTC

*** Issue 57547 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 8 thorsten.martens 2007-07-10 10:03:25 UTC

TM->pmineault: please investigate if this problem is still reproducible in a
more recent build (e.g. m217), thanks in advance !

Comment 9 mrp123 2007-08-08 22:00:55 UTC

I also confirm this bug in OOo version 2.2.1.  I have a seven-monitor setup, all
using differing screen resolutions and all with different relative alignments. 
(See my attached Display Properties screenshot)  This bug appears when OOo Calc
is maximized on my Displays #1 and #7.  It also appears if Calc is not maximized
in those displays yet its window is positioned very close to the bottom of the
those displays.  This bug does NOT appear when Calc is maximized on my Display
#5 and #6.

This behavior confirms that Calc is displaying the context menu in question by
paying attention only to the lowest vertical point from a global perspective of
the desktop rather than to the immediate bounds of the display(s) Calc occupies.

Moreover, when OO Calc is maximized in my Displays #3, #4, or #2, this context
menu in question is displayed as split between the one display Calc occupies
with the remainder of the menu spilling over into the display directly below it.

Comment 10 mrp123 2007-08-08 22:03:41 UTC

Created attachment 47406 [details]
Displays Properties screenshot for 7-monitors, under Windows XP SP2.

Comment 11 kpalagin 2008-11-06 04:48:11 UTC

Any chance to get this going?
Thanks&regards,
KP