Hi,

Can you please make the Boinc Manager remember it's window information between sessions?

That is:

1.) Size of Window

2.) Location of Window on Screen

3.) If Window is maximized or Not

I like to keep Bonic's window at a certain location on a certain monitor.

Annoying that it resets every time on launch.

Thanks,

Will

With 6.12.8 it will remember screen position and approximate size it's in, just not if it was maximized or not. BOINC Manager never starts up maximized as then it could take up focus, placing it over other programs you want to track (upon Windows start up, for instance).

I don't think it works with dual- or multi-monitors, as that's dependent on which videocard does the drawing of the monitors, which is primary, which has focus etc. Most all programs start on the primary monitor only, you'll always have to move them about to other monitors if you want them to live there.

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With 6.12.8 it will remember screen position and approximate size it's in, just not if it was maximized or not. BOINC Manager never starts up maximized as then it could take up focus, placing it over other programs you want to track (upon Windows start up, for instance).

I'm don't think it works with dual- or multi-monitors, as that's dependent on which videocard does the drawing of the monitors, which is primary, which has focus etc. Most all programs start on the primary monitor only, you'll always have to move them about to other monitors if you want them to live there.

Just tested on Windows 7, single video card, dual monitors. (It's a dual-DVI NVidia cuda card, with 2 x 1600x1200 monitors - primary to the left, secondary to the right).

When I drag both BOINC Manager windows (main tabbed display, and subsidiary Event Log window) to the right-hand (secondary) monitor, and then exit the Manager:

On reopen, the windows both open with their previous size, on the primary monitor, but as far to the right (as close to the secondary monitor) as possible.

I remember wrestling with this problem soon after the release of Windows 98, the first to support multiple monitors. It's extremely difficult to program to cover all eventualities (for example, on my current system, the driver drops the resolution of both monitors to 1024x768 whenever I use the DVI-KVM to switch the primary monitor to a different host: should BOINC know about that?)

The present balance (I'm testing with v6.12.8) is probably as reasonable as we're likely to get. Unless any programmers out there can contribute better (cross-platform) code?