[QScintilla] Bug report: Caret position is incorrect if window dragged across monitors

[Phil Thompson]

On 23 May 2018, at 9:42 pm, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-05-23 11:09 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On 23 May 2018, at 3:01 pm, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2018-05-23 8:46 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 22 May 2018, at 3:48 am, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Sorry, I forgot to include the bug report: https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/issues/5086/caret-position-is-incorrect-if-window
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Gili
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 2018-05-21 9:13 PM, cowwoc wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can someone please take a look at this bug report which seems to affect your project?
>>>>>> 
>>>> Sorry, I don't have the equipment needed to reproduce the problem.
>>>> 
>>>> Phil
>>>> 
>>> Hi Phil,
>>> 
>>> Which equipment are you missing? A video card with 2 ports? 2 monitors? Or a copy of Windows?
>>> 
>> ...and a PC.
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
> Fortunately for you, that's not a problem :) Assuming you have a Mac laptop:
> 	• Plug in a second monitor (any will do) so your laptop sees multiple monitors.
> 	• Fire up a virtual machine of your choosing. I used VMWare Workstation, which is equivalent to VMWare Fusion on Mac. I believe VirtualBox (which is free) will work just as well.
> 	• Download and install the Windows 10 ISO which you can download for free from https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10
> 	• You can run Windows 10 without a license for a short period of time (30 days I believe) so this isn't a problem.
> 	• Configure the VM with 2 virtual monitors and you should be able to reproduce the problem.
> 	• I just tried it in VMWare Workstation and it worked for me.
> I haven't been able to get this working (yet) using a single physical monitor. See https://superuser.com/questions/1325393/how-to-use-multiple-virtual-monitors-if-host-has-a-single-monitor
> 
> But it's possible that VirtualBox is better in this regard than VMWare Workstation.
> Gili

I'll look at it once I have a cable and some time.

Phil