Cintiq glitch with Flash panel menu

[Ansel]

whenever I'm using my Cintiq tablet, and click the little menu tab at the top of any panel (Color, Library, etc), something very irritating happens. I use the Cintiq as a second monitor for my laptop, and the two don't line up perfectly--the Cintiq is up above the laptop by about an inch and a half, and is 1600x1200 as opposed to 1280x800. In any case, if the little menu button is above the "line" where the two meet, the menu opens not at the tab where I click, but in the bottom right corner of the other monitor, where I cannot reach it with my Cintiq pen. I attached a beautiful graphic i made to explain my predicament.

So, any panel I click above the danger line will open its menu in the bottom right corner of the other screen. Very frustrating, and I have no idea what's causing it, and unless I rearrange my entire workspace there's no way to avoid it except to "reposition" my monitors in the Display Settings and remove the overlap. Thoughts/suggestions?

PS: This doesn't happen in Photoshop, only in Flash. Using CS3 btw

[jmtb02]

Beautiful illustration.

Setup your Cintiq to be the primary monitor. Flash hates the fact that you're primary is not the cintiq so it'll spawn popups in the primary (your other monitor). This happened on our lab computers when I was at school... hope it's the same issue.

You can easily fix this by making your cintiq the primary monitor and then extending to your other monitor. If memory serves me right you don't actually have to change any cables to do this... just open up the display settings and go at it.

Another thing you can think about is that Flash determines it's previous location by the window in which it is closed at the end of the day. Think about opening Flash, dragging it completely to the cintiq window, expanding it, and then closing it. Typically it will remember the last window it was in and call it home. This may fix the situation.

Sounds irritating, good luck.

[Ansel]

At 4/13/09 11:18 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Beautiful illustration.

Setup your Cintiq to be the primary monitor. Flash hates the fact that you're primary is not the cintiq so it'll spawn popups in the primary (your other monitor). This happened on our lab computers when I was at school... hope it's the same issue.

You can easily fix this by making your cintiq the primary monitor and then extending to your other monitor. If memory serves me right you don't actually have to change any cables to do this... just open up the display settings and go at it.

I thought of trying this, but regrettably I can't set any monitor as my primary monitor except the laptop screen. It makes sense that it's locked that way, but it's frustrating to no end. I do think this would solve the issue-- but I can't do it.

Another thing you can think about is that Flash determines it's previous location by the window in which it is closed at the end of the day. Think about opening Flash, dragging it completely to the cintiq window, expanding it, and then closing it. Typically it will remember the last window it was in and call it home. This may fix the situation.

Sounds irritating, good luck.

Tried restarting and various other things already, all after shutting down Flash in the Cintiq window. what's most baffling about this is that it really does only occur above that line. If I drag the color panel below it and open the menu, it works perfectly, regardless of which monitor it's on.

[henke37]

Actually, it does not make sense to have such a silly behavior. This is a clear bug. Submit their bugreport form and hope that it gets fixed in cs 5.