Software Remote popup panels position

Hian · Post by **Hian** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 8:07 am

Just found out that software remote (Windows client) popup panel position is relative to Window's screen not to software remote's windows.

I used to setup popup panles to simulate tab controls and align them nicely to software remote. This works perfectly If I lock the software remote's position. But when I moved the software remote, the alignment will be out.

Of course, I know others may prefer the popup panels to be relative to Windows screen but this does not work good for me. Any ideas to smoothen my setup?

TIA.

Post by **ScottBot** » Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:48 am

Depending on how you are setting up the Theme, you might be able to simply include the tab at the top of each pop-up as controls on the pop-up. It means that you would have to duplicate (and maintain) all of the buttons.

Scott

yaccri · Post by **yaccri** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:05 am

I have the same problem as Hian, and would be happy to have the option to lock the position of pop-up panels. Duplicating and maintaing controls is prone to errors and in some cases may require a lot of time.

TIA.

Post by **ScottBot** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:49 am

I could add an option as to whether a Panel is movable (like is done with the main Panel). It won't be in this next update, but I'll add it to the list.

Scott

yaccri · Post by **yaccri** » Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:19 pm

That's great Scott.

While working on the pop-ups, please consider this:

Following your suggestion in the help file, I use pop-up panels for devices like DVD and VCR, so they cover part of the main panel, while the part not covered by the pop-ups is used for general things like lighting.

While switching from HouseBot client to another application (using alt+tab or the taskbar, without minimizing the client first), the pop-up panel remains (while the main panel does not). It is more appropriate in such cases to make it dissapear.

TIA.