[AccessD] Dual Monitors and reports

Tony Septav iggy at nanaimo.ark.com
Thu May 22 20:21:12 CDT 2008


Thanks William
You "hit the nail on th head". My client spent some time dragging and 
dropping things and finally got the preview report to work properly.  I 
have a feeling (because I don't know) that he was having a problem with 
his settings?? for forms versus screens.

William Hindman wrote:

>...depends on how he's placing the pop-up ...if its relative to the form, it 
>should work ...but if he's placing it relative to the screen that could well 
>do odd things on a dual monitor set-up ...same thing may well be true if 
>sRemoveCaption is using the api to locate something relative to the screen 
>rather than the form.
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>William
>"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride 
>it, but in the end; there it is."
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>>He shouldn't have any problems at all with doubles and reports.  All our
>>developers have at least two monitors and our tester actually has 3!.
>>The second monitor is a continuation of the first, so it makes no
>>difference which one the preview appears on.  I don't know what
>>sRemoveCaption is, so I can't comment on that, but I think you have to
>>dig deeper to find out the actual problem, not just deal with sypmtoms.
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>>Charlotte Foust
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>>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav
>>Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:11 AM
>>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>Subject: [AccessD] Dual Monitors and reports
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>>Hey All
>>I have an application that is running on 20 to 30 machines, with no
>>problems, except for one user who has dual montiors. First I have a
>>little popup form that is displayed in the left hand top corner of the
>>preview a report. <Exit Preview>, number of pages and <Print Report>. On
>>his system the pop-up appears in the upper left hand corner of the left
>>monitor and the report appears in the right monitor. Second I have, I
>>think it came from Dev's site, sRemoveCaption. It just started, but it
>>crashes out the app when he now tries to preview the reports. I think he
>>has been goofing around with his settings, as they say "a little
>>knowledge is dangerous". If we run the app on one monitor everything is
>>fine.
>>I guess what I am asking from those of you that have dual monitors, is
>>recommending something like UltraMon going to allow him to solve his
>>problems, I haven't a clue, I only work on single monitors?
>>
>>Thanks
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