[PD] Gem OSX Window Weirdness

[chris clepper]

On May 1, 2005, at 5:26 AM, timon botez wrote:

> Hi, did report this earlier, but I seem to have found a workaround. 
> Wanted to share.
> Im using Gem on a G5. When I work with a single screen I can create 
> and position a window pretty much where ever I like, at a size up to 
> 2400 pix across - bleeding off the monitor. When I connect the second 
> monitor I am only able to create a window in the area within each of 
> the two. Im not able to span the window across the two monitors and it 
> does not support a window as large as above. I receive this error 
> message:
>
> GemwinMac: width - 2048 height - 768
> Mac: no info.context
> error: Gem: Unable to create window
> error: Gem: No window made

Looks like the GL driver doesn't think the GPU can do a window over 
multiple displays.  Can you post your GPU hardware, OS version and GL 
driver version?


> My work around this problem has been to create the Gem Window before I 
> connect the second display. Then Im able to see the window on the 
> second display. It seems odd. Am I doing something wrong here or is it 
> suppose to behave like this?

Spanning one window over two displays does work, but there are a lot of 
variables we can't test due to not having access to hardware.

cgc