It looks like Doug is right. After further testing on a number of
machines, I've come to the conclusion that Windows won't allow any
window to be wider than the total screen width available, regardless
of the actual position of the window.

I had thought that at one time (before I got the dual-screen setup) I
had used JSPager to spread an application over several virtual screens
as you're trying to do, but now I'm wondering if it was just that the
application had a lot of floating tool windows, etc, which I had
dragged to a seperate screen.

Ah well.

Final thought: Stephen Pair suggested implementing a facility to make
the world bigger than the squeak window, and allow scrolling though
the world. As a quick hack, though, could we not just implement
something along the lines of JSPager within squeak which just pushed
the coordinates of all the world's contents around? Would this do what
you need? How much do we suppose this might break?


-Nick





On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:02:15 -0500, Doug Way wrote:

>
>Craig Latta wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Nick--
>> 
>> > ...the following works for me...
>> >
>> > With squeak running in a window, bring up the menu from the icon in
>> > the top left corner of the window (I don't know what its proper name
>> > is, but all Win32 windows have them), and choose the menu option
>> > "Size". Now just hold down the right cursor button to expand Squeak's
>> > window off the side of the screen, and press enter to confirm.
>> 
>>         Hmm, that didn't work. I'm still limited to the extent of the screen. I
>> also notice, though, that the enter key doesn't seem to have any effect
>> in this maneuver. I'm using Windows 98SE; perhaps other releases behave
>> differently.
>
>That doesn't work for me either on Windows 2000.  I'm guessing it only worked for Nick because he's using a two-monitor setup.
>
>- Doug Way
>  dway at riskmetrics.com
>