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Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:38 am**

Hi,

I am using the following code to toggle fullscreen. I use Ctrl-F for the toggle. I had assumed that when I toggle from fullscreen that the stack would go back to it's original position, but alas it does not. Sometime the stack is positioned so that the top part is missing and thus interaction with the stack is problematic. The workaround I have implemented just centers the stack when the user toggles out of fullscreen mode. Works great on systems with a single monitor. If my stack is showing on a second monitor, the fullscreen mode works, but toggling back and centering puts it back on the main monitor.

Is there any way I can force my stack to be positioned to the center of the second monitor?

Thanks

Bergsy

on centerMe
set the loc of this stack to the screenLoc
end centerMe

on standardPreOpen
centerMe
set the fullscreen of this stack to false
--set the fullscreenmode of this stack to "exactFit"
set the fullscreenmode of this stack to "letterbox"
end standardPreOpen

on handleCommands theKey
--if theKey is not a number then beep
if theKey = "f" or theKey = "F" then
put the fullscreen of this stack into bFullScreen
set the fullscreen of this stack to not bFullScreen
centerMe
end if
end handleCommands

on preOpenStack
standardPreOpen
end preOpenStack

on commandkeyDown theKey
handleCommands theKey
end commandkeyDown

Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2015 2:21 pm**

Look at "screenRects" in the Dictionary. I've used that to determine which screen the user has put the stack.

Posted: **Thu Mar 26, 2015 6:40 am**

Hi,

I ended up saving top, left, width, height and loc before going to full screen, and using those saved values when I toggle out of full screen

In case anyone else needs to know

Cheers

Bergsy

Posted: **Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:53 pm**

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on mouseUp -- this can be changed to handle cntrl+F
set itemDel to comma
if the width of this stack > (item 3 of the screenRect*50)/100 then
get setStack(50) -- set the stack to 50% of the screen
else
get setStack(100) -- set the stack to 100% of the screen
end if
end mouseUp

function setStack tMsg
set itemDel to comma
set the width of this stack to (item 3 of the screenRect*tMsg)/100
set the height of this stack to (item 4 of the working screenRect*tMsg)/100
set the loc of this stack to the screenLoc
end setStack

Just adding to your thoughts, with this code you can have standard widths and heights (e.x. 50% of the current screenRect).

Posted: **Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:36 am**

Here's a stack I use to find wayward stack windows in multi screen space - I sometimes park open stacks off screen. It may help.
Walt

Posted: **Sat Jun 09, 2018 1:27 am**

That is brilliant, thank you!

Posted: **Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:23 pm**

WaltBrown wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 28, 2015 2:36 am
Here's a stack I use to find wayward stack windows in multi screen space - I sometimes park open stacks off screen. It may help.
Walt

just great!!!

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