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[raldo]

Hi,

Display view now remembers its location after MC is restarted.

However, the detach state is reset after each restart. Can you fix this?

[Matt]

I can't reproduce this.  Detached display remembers just where I put it between program runs.

Make sure you're running the latest build from the top of this board.

[raldo]

thanks for a quick response, Matt!

Clarification: I have two displays: a 14 inch monitor (primary) and a 40 inch TV (secondary).

o Start in standard view, no display view present.
o select view\display view
o On your secondary monitor, rightclick and select "detach display"
o Close MC
o start mc

MC starts in display view, but the application is minimized in the task bar. I now need to move the mouse to the secondary display, right click and select "detach.." again.

You can also try this after you have restarted MC: click the taskbar icon so that display view minimzes. When you click the taskbar icon again, the display view maximizes on the primary monitor.

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[Matt]

Display view will not stay detached between runs.

However, it will return to where it was last if you detach it again.

[raldo]

Yes, that's what I observed. Could you please fix this?

[Mr ChriZ]

A friend mentioned this to me recently, for people
with multiple screens it does seem to make more sense to work like this.

[glynor]

But really only for them.  OTOH, for novice users who accidentally stumbled into the Detached Display option, it might be annoying to have it keep coming back even when they close and re-open the program.  I'm not sure how a simple Right-Click --> Detach display is that much of a hardship...

[Mr ChriZ]

It seems worthy of an option though.
If you've got a 54" plasma screen hooked up to one computer,
and all you ever do is watch Video on one screen, and manage your library on the other
detatching is just an extra click you don't want.

[gappie]

when you have a keyboard you could use ctrl 5 to detache again. less mouse movement.
or when the mouse is the only option you could attach, when possible, a small bat file to it with
mc12.exe /mcc 10037,-1 
in it.
when you have girder it is easy to make a small script that even looks if the right monitor is there and open detach view then when mc is started