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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
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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
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Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS
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