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Moving and Resizing on extended desktop.

I have two monitors. When the extended desktop is active moving and resizing the desktop calendar does not work.

To reproduce:

- Switch to extended desktop.

- open the preference dialog for "outlook on de desktop"

- clicking on any of the movement arrows moves the calender upwards im big jumps until it dissapears of screen.
- The resizing bars make the calendar change size in large increments.

- Switching back to normal desktop makes the problem go away. Calendar can be resized and moved , and stay correct size when switching to extended desktop.

 

 

Forums: 

dh (not verified) says:

I have two monitors running and I've noticed that none of the functionality of the outlook on my desktop works in this configuration - meaning, it shows me my inbox, or calendar, but I cannot click on anything to open up an email or appointment,  or use the scroll bars.

Works fine when I'm only on the one monitor.

Other than that, I love it - Thanks!

mike says:

Thanks for the reports.  These are both known problems with multi-monitor displays.  The problem is I have 2 screens as well and experience none of these symptoms, but I do know they exist as quite a few people have reported the exact same thing.  If you could provide me with a list of other possible conflicting desktop utilities you are both running that would be helpful.  Things like ultramon, samurize etc.

Mike

dh (not verified) says:

I'm running Yahoo widgets, but that's about all I've got going that I can think of.

 

I notice that if I place the outlook on the extended monitor there is some erratic response to mouse clicks - as opposed to when it's on the main monitor the mouse clicks do nothing.

 

Again - when the extended monitor is unhooked it works perfectly - immediately.

 

(have I mentioned that I hate the "captcha" thing to post in this forum?  )

Jimdoria (not verified) says:

I'm having a similar issue. Also running Yahoo Widgets. Also positioning the calendar on the secondary monitor. The left-right reposition buttons jump the window off the top of the screen in one or two clicks, but otherwise seem to work. Clicking the up or down button brings the window back to its proper place in the vertical dimension.

Resizing works fine for me.

I have an odd thing with the mouse, which seems related to a display issue. Sometimes, the top 1" or so (about 1/6th of the window height) shows up as a black band. I can get this black band to disappear or change its height by resizing the window, but only if some portion of the window is on the primary monitor. If the entire window is on the secondary monitor, the black band persists once it appears.

Strangely, only the top area of the window responds correctly to the mouse, but the area that does this  is not the same height as the black band area! The entire black band area, plus about 1/2" under it, will display the Outlook context menu when right-clicked. The rest of the calendar window is inactive - no scrollbar, can't click appointments, and right-click brings up the desktop context menu.

My primary monitor is 1280x800. My 2ndary monitor is 1280x1024. 2ndary is to the right of primary. The bottom of the 2ndary monitor is offset 440 pixels vertically above the bottom of the primary, to account for the physical postioning of the two screens relative to each other. I'm running a Thinkpad T61 with Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M drivers.

Hope this helps. Love the app! If I can get it working reliably on my 2nd screen, it would be totally sweet.

Jimdoria (not verified) says:

Figured I'd try just running it on my primary desktop, but the same thing is occurring with regards to the context menus. The stop working about an inch and a half from the top of the window.

Looking forward to the next release!

enjanerd (not verified) says:

I'm having similar issues as others here.  For me, if I have my main monitor set up with the secondary on the left, OOtD doesn't work (viewable, but no functionality, resizing/relocating jumps and is not saved, not viewable when moved to the secondary).  But when I have my secondary monitor shown on the right of the primary, everything works fine.

Primary monitor: 1680x1050; Secondary: 1280x1024.

Not running any desktop utils that I can think of...

nauman44 (not verified) says:

im having the same problem too. My 'main' desktop is a monitor, my laptop's display is the secondary screen. OOTD doesn't work on either screen...!

 

Looking forward to the next release too

Mike Levin (not verified) says:

I have this problem as well--but only when the secondary monitor is on the LEFT side. When it's on the right side, the calendar is completely interactive. When it's on the left, it becomes non-interactive.

Mike Levin (not verified) says:

Related to the same problem: The "size" of the calendar became zero (or 1, I think). When I expanded it out using the preferences sliders, it popped back down to the small size, then expanded with the slider, but all the expanded space is black. So, there's a postagestamp of calendar showing in the upper left, and a big black field on the rest of the calendar. This is a laptop/second monitor situation with the laptop on left and secondary monitor being used as the main Windows monitor (on right).

PWDootd (not verified) says:

Same problem here - specifically I have a desktop machine with dual monitors... the problems have nothing to do with the resolution of either monitor but come into play if you change the:  Display Properties>>>Settings>>> and use the "Drag the monitor icons to match the physical arrangement of your monitors." function... Anything other than the default arrangement of Primary on left and Secondary on right with the bottoms of the screens aligned corrupts the OotD display and functionality.

Hope this helps

 

LauraDB (not verified) says:

I, too, am experiencing this. I don't have any 3rd party desktop apps running aside from OotD and when my dual monitors are arranged as they are physically (one slightly higher than the other) then mouseclicks on the calendar register about an inch (in 1024x1280) below the cursor. It seems that OotD is reading the cursor position lower than what it actually is as I have otherwise normal funciton. Arranging the monitors to be even fixes this problem but is an undesireable solution.

I also have the problem of the display jumping when trying to shift it horizontally. It snaps back into position if I then try to adjust it vertically (with the appropriate shift up or down). This also doesn't happen when the monitors are even, so the problem is clearly a conflict with dual monitor arrangement.

Both of my displays are 1024x1280 so I don't know if resolution difference affects anything.

afspear (not verified) says:

Any fixes yet?  I have a dell laptop connected to a second monitor via docking station.  The symptoms are the same described in all these posts.

 

tlv56 (not verified) says:

Same situation here. Dell laptop to docking station with second monitor to the left. I can not move the OotD to the second monitor as I can every other program, icon, window, etc. It moves about half way there (using controls) and then disappears or becomes nonresponsive. Thanks.

henkelcdm says:

I just switched to have primary on the left and that fixed it, with all the other desktop stuff running (samurize, yahoo widgets)

pitiso says:

Hi Mike, not that I haven't seen all the other posts before... but same issue here, namely positionining and resizing won't work if the primary monitor is on the right. If I revert to primary monitor on the left, the program seems to be running OK.

Any idea if and when you might be putting out a fix for this? My layout is such that I must have the primary monitor on the right, which renders an otherwise wonderful program pretty much unusable for me.


Thanks much!
Olivian.

vigarza (not verified) says:

Same problem. Thank you.

panx (not verified) says:

I have the same problem.

Any chance we might get a fix for this issue.

 

Thanks in advance and love the tool.

jwatlu (not verified) says:

This worked for me!

Switching the "primary monitor" to the left instead of right made the software work correctly.

pitiso says:

 jwatlu - We know, that works for everyone! The problem is that some of us *need* the primary monitor on the right.

aws1 (not verified) says:

I have a similar problem with an extended desktop but I have my laptop on the left running as primary monitor. OOTD works fine on the laptop alone, but appears to become unresponsive when running the extended desktop with OOTD still on the laptop. What is actually happening is that the selection is being offset downwards - so if I click near the top of the OOTD calendar window, a cell partway down is selected. If I click above or outside the OOTD window, then nothing is selected so for a very short window there is no way of selecting it. I've discovered that this is due to my monitors running different resolutions and being aligned with their bottom edges at the same level (and the graphics properties set to reflect this). If I change my graphics properties to nearly align the top edges I can almost overcome the problem (except that this is not how my monitors are placed in relation to one another). Changing the alignment causes OODT to move up the screen so that it aligns with where I am clicking.

In short, I suspect the key to resolving this issue has to do with running an extended desktop on different resolution monitors which are not top aligned.