Forum: Poser 12


Subject: MacOS, Multiple Monitors & Dialogs

unrealblue opened this issue on Feb 09, 2021 ยท 3 posts


an0malaus posted Sat, 13 February 2021 at 9:01 PM

Multiple monitor support has been a bugbear for Poser on MacOS since before SmithMicro's acquisition. There was a time, in PoserPro2014, when it worked just fine, remembering which monitor a Poser child window was placed on, and restoring them next time Poser started.

Then it was decided that for safety's sake (my assumption), since some folks had second monitors that were not always attached, that dialogs and child windows needed to open on the main display, rather than just be forced to remain within the currently available, multi-monitor viewport (not always a rectangle, if monitors have different resolutions or are arranged with vertical and horizontal offsets). That way you'd be safe if you went somewhere with your laptop and left the external monitor behind.

The problem was, that Poser would then randomly ignore the saved locations of windows. If Apple can cope with addition and removal of monitors, without losing windows into the off-screen limbo, then Poser certainly should be able to, also.

Practically, though, when enough of the higher priorities for Poser functionality have been addressed, this will get looked at again. It's certainly on my list of squeaky wheels to be greased ;-)

Oh, and the best way to get issues addressed and raise the awareness and priority of their need to be fixed is to report them on: Poser Support Centre (My spelling ;-) )



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