Hidden popups on multiple screens (solution?)

[Guillaume]

Hi,
Working with 2 screens (laptop + desktop), I often get an annoying behaviour with EA popups that are hidden and not accessible on either screen.
Example: having EA on my desktop screen, I open the Export Reference Data. The popup is not visible even if I use the Alt TAB. EA is stuck and I have to press Esc to close this popup and gain control again on EA.
If I reduce the window, it doesn't help. I have to move EA window to my laptop screen so it works. I also noticed that if I move the popup to the main screen, then I can work ok with EA on this screen.

I have a feeling this is purely a Ms Windows issue but I wonder if something could be done in EA via some shortcut to force a popup to be made visible or movable with the mouse.

[Elpis]

If you mean 'standard' EA's dialog windows (and not those of scripting Session.Prompt), and you sometimes change multi-screens layout (e.g. moving from office to home configuration), it may be, that the window is open in previous (saved) position and it may happens to be out of current 'windows extended desktop' visible area (non rectangular). Sparx had improved EA behaviour in such situations in latest 17.1 version (I can't recall exact build number).

[...] I wonder if something could be done in EA via some shortcut to force a popup to be made visible or movable with the mouse.

Try to use Windows Alt-<space> shortcut to display system menu of current active window, and than click Move option, than use any arrow key (and only after that you can use a mouse, as well), to place the window on visible area of the desktop.

[Elpis]

Found in EA 17.1 history https://sparxsystems.com/products/ea/17.1/history.html for build 1710:
"Dialogs that open at saved locations will display correctly when monitor configurations have been changed".

[Guillaume]

Hi

Thank you for your suggestion with the Win Alt Space ; I'll try that next time, especially if I don't use the latest EA build.