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From: erics@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Eric Schlegel)
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Subject: Re: Centering Dialogs
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Date: 20 Sep 88 18:45:42 GMT
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In article  rj0z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert George Johnston, Jr.) writes:
>
>    Centering alert and dialog boxes is relative straight forward
>on a single screen system, but what do you do when there are two or
>more screens connected to the system? I tried to find some mention
>of how this should be handled in IM, but did not.
>    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)
>Try to locate the screen with the frontmost window, and center on it.
>(4) Center the dialog on the screen that the cursor is currently
>pointing on.

I would use either 2 or 4; probably 2, since it seems to me that stuff like
dialogs should come up on the main screen; but I don't have two screens, and
if the cursor were on another screen perhaps this would be inconvenient.

Just a personal opinion...what do others think?

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