Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Centering Dialogs Message-ID: <537@uva.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 13:48:33 GMT References:<10132@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton) Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam Lines: 20 In article rj0z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert George Johnston, Jr.) writes: > There are several ways this could be done: (1) Center over >ScreenBits.Bounds, which would probably put the dialog between screens. >(2) Always center on the main screen (the one with the menu bar). (3) >... >(4) Center the dialog on the screen that the cursor is currently >pointing on. We discussed this at Paragon in the development of Nisus and concluded on (4). Several people with large setups, such as 3 x 19" screens, found it very pleasant once implemented. I agree, however, that it _may_ be more correct to center over the frontmost window. Anyone have _experience_ with both? (I don't know of any other programs right now that do these things!) -cbb -- Chris Borton borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS "MesS-DOS programmers did it yesterday. Mac programmers do it today. OS/2 programmers claim they will do it tomorrow. [I don't believe them :-)]"