Default GUI form position

Hello GUI Developers -

Last month a user asked if there were a way to make standard dialogs, like message box, input box, etc. display near the form that initiated them, or at least on the same monitor as the form that initiated the dialog. I've been experimenting with this, and except for the Font dialog, the change seems to work nicely.

In the same vein, I noticed that when a sub-form was displayed, if the form's position is "auto", it is centered in the primary monitor. It seemed that the same logic should apply to "auto" - that is, instead of always centering in the primary monitor, to center in the monitor where the initiating form is. And by extension, this applies to launching the first GUI form from AccuTerm - the first form, if set to "auto", should display centered in the same monitor as AccuTerm.

Anyone think this could break anything running in the field?

Thanks,

Pete

Should be harmless - ScreenDriver does not use any 'auto' positioning.

I don't believe it will break anything in ForeMost. Is there a list of improvement in version 8 yet?

How would this behave (with form position "auto") if the Accuterm window is minimized at start?

ok good.  When we launch Accuterm GUI forms, we keep the Accuterm window minimized, so I was curious to know if this particular use case was tested and how it was handled.

thanks for the response.

Hi Pete,

That change would be most welcome.

Cheers,

Brian