What controls which screen a form will pop up on?

[steveh5]

Gang...

How do you control what monitor a form pops up on when using ilogic. 

I have two monitors and the form pops up on top of the monitor that has Inventor which is my secondary monitor. This is as I want it.

If I go to another workstation.... Inventor is on a secondary monitor as mine...but the form pops up on the primary monitor away from the screen where Inventor is running.

What controls where the form pops up?

Thanks in advanced,

Steve H.

[ekinsb]

iLogic is just displaying the form and Windows is deciding where to display it.  I don't know how Windows determines where to display dialogs.  It can get fairly complicated because the user can configure two monitors to be two screens or to behave as one large single screen.  Unless there's a general way to control this for Windows I don't of a solution.

[MechMachineMan · Accepted solution]

If you create a custom form using Visual Studio, within the options isn't there the capability to set it there; ie centering it over the application window?

[ekinsb · Accepted solution]

You're right that you have some coarse control when a new dialog is created about where it will be displayed.  If you want more control then you have to add some code to handle it at runtime.  For example, it can look to see how many screens there are and determine what to do.  But as I said, it can still be weird depending on how the machine is configured because you can have two monitors that appear as two screens or a single screen.

As far as iLogic I did a quick search through the source code and for a couple of it's list and radio button dialogs it's setting them to be centered on the parent.  I didn't find anywhere else where this was being specified so I assume for a user-defined Form it's using the default setting.