Screen Issue

[hrcap]

Evening All

I hope everyone has had a good weekend.

I have had a problem occur, I develop using a MacBook Pro, prior to this weekend I could use either the built in MacBook Pro screen or an external monitor.

.... however now, my app/IDE will show perfectly on the external monitor but when I move it over onto the MacBook screen it is corrupt, (see attached pic), when I move it back over to the external monitor it displays fine again.

Any ideas?


Many Thanks

[dunbarx]

Weird.

Do other apps on your laptop exhibit the same thing? What happens to LC in a new session after a restart?

Craig Newman

[hrcap]

Hi Craig

Its only two of my Livecode stacks that show the behaviour.

If I click File, New Stack in Livecode then the new stack displays without an issue.

I have tried deleting Livecode and re-installing and the problem persists.

[dunbarx]

Really? Yipes.

I would send those two stacks to QCC.

Can you reconstitute the two into new stacks, by copying all controls and scripts?

Craig

[hrcap]

Okay

I have found the chunk of script that is causing the issue, unfortunately due to my inexperience with LiveCode I don't actually know why this would be causing a problem when being used on MacBook

//----------
//to do with allowing layouts to scroll
if the platform is "iphone" then
set the compositorType of this stack to "opengl"
else
set the compositorType of this stack to "software"
end if
set the compositorTileSize of this stack to 32
set the compositorCacheLimit of this stack to (16 * 1024 * 1024)
//----------

I included this chunk of script as I was following a tutorial to do with making scrolling layouts.


Many Thanks

[dunbarx]

Hmmm.

I still think the team should be informed of what you did.

Thanks for posting.

Craig

[jacque]

Those commands have been mostly replaced by the fullscreenmode command, and they are mostly used only on mobile devices, so you can successfully omit them during development.

Are you just dragging the stack to the second monitor? If so, try closing it and reopening it on the second monitor. LC should adjust correctly when the stack reloads. It will only change the settings when those particular lines run, and the laptop apparently needs a different adjustment.

You can retain the lines if you specifically check the environment for "mobile" before allowing them to execute. That's what I usually do. They aren't necessary on desktop, and LC should adjust automatically if you let it decide how to render the screen.