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Smartbottom
Placing newly spawned window
Jul 20th, 2009, 3:45pm  
Hi folks,

I'm generating a new window with a call to PApplet.main that needs to span two screens.  Unfortunately, upon calling size(1024, 1536), my window appears with 1/3 of the top space out of the screen.  This means I can't move it.  It also means that my co-ordinate system is out of whack. (I'm using an external 6D input device that's calibrated to the displays, not the processing window, and I can't easily change that.)

I see that there's an argument that can be passed to PApplet (--external), but I dont' seem to be able to get that work.

Ideas?  Comments?

-- Just a note:  It's actually quite important that the window spawn in the same location every time, so merely figuring out a hack or some way to move the window within the system isn't really very good for me.  I'm running experiments that rely on near-pixel perfect location and manually aligning windows is a recipe for poor results.  Thanks!
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alvaro
Re: Placing newly spawned window
Reply #1 - Jul 20th, 2009, 4:36pm  
unfortunately, I don't have 2 screens ...envy...envy.. but as far as passing the window location as arg to the main it goes

Code:

import processing.core.PApplet;

public class ScreenLocationTest extends PApplet {

  public void setup() {
    size(1024, 1536);
  }
    
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    PApplet.main(
      new String[] { "--location=0,0", "ScreenLocationTest" }
    );
  }
}
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Smartbottom
Re: Placing newly spawned window
Reply #2 - Jul 22nd, 2009, 12:23pm  
Brilliant!  Thanks.
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